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by _the_inflator 2495 days ago
> In a functional developed economy you need people to move between jobs as supply and demand change, so a certain level of unemployment is expected.

Absolutely. Technically someone who leaves an employer at the end of July and starts a new job in September is unemployed for one month. This is part of any statistic.

Put another way: it is almost impossible to have an unemployment rate below 1%, as you said.