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'''Full employment''' is the economic concept that refers to a situation where the entire active population of a country is working. The consequences of a society reaching full employment are entirely positive. This situation would imply that the markets are in perfect balance, companies would have no problem finding qualified personnel for their jobs and citizens would find employment at any time.
'''Full employment''' is the economic concept that refers to a situation where the entire active population of a country is working. The consequences of a society reaching full employment are entirely positive. This situation would imply that the markets are in perfect balance, companies would have no problem finding qualified personnel for their jobs and citizens would find employment at any time.


In reality, it is practically impossible to reach an exact moment in which the demand and supply of labor are equal, because there will always be this frictional unemployment (for example, workers who are not satisfied with their current position given their training, and spend months unemployed until they get a better offer), but it is an ideal situation and everything that means approaching it is positive.
The concept of full employment is rather theoretical since it is hard to find a real case where unemployment is exactly zero; since in practice the labor market presents many imperfections:, the workforce is always changing, people come and go to work for many reasons such as different interests, moving to another country, starting a new study..., so it is practically impossible to reach an exact moment in which the demand and supply of labor are equal, because there will always be this frictional unemployment, but it is an ideal situation and everything that means approaching it is positive.

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Introduction

Full employment is the economic concept that refers to a situation where the entire active population of a country is working. The consequences of a society reaching full employment are entirely positive. This situation would imply that the markets are in perfect balance, companies would have no problem finding qualified personnel for their jobs and citizens would find employment at any time.

The concept of full employment is rather theoretical since it is hard to find a real case where unemployment is exactly zero; since in practice the labor market presents many imperfections:, the workforce is always changing, people come and go to work for many reasons such as different interests, moving to another country, starting a new study..., so it is practically impossible to reach an exact moment in which the demand and supply of labor are equal, because there will always be this frictional unemployment, but it is an ideal situation and everything that means approaching it is positive.