JOB LEAVERS: Unemployed workers who have voluntarily quit their current jobs and have immediate sought other employment. This is one of the official categories or unemployed workers tracted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics when compiling employment statistics and the unemployment rate. It is also a key to the theoretical notion of frictional unemployment. See also | unemployed | unemployment rate | frictional unemployment | job losers | Current Population Survey | not in the labor force | employed persons | unemployed persons |