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Natural Rate of Unemployment
The natural rate of unemployment represents the baseline level of unemployment that exists in a healthy, growing economy when it is at full employment. It is composed of frictional and structural unemployment and excludes cyclical unemployment. This rate is not zero because there will always be some level of job turnover and skill mismatches in a dynamic economy.
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