Sociology / Unit 9 Soc 1559 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Structural Unemployment
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The idea
Structural unemployment is a societal-level mismatch between people seeking jobs and the jobs actually available, whether geographic, technological, or educational in origin.
In practice
Job openings concentrated in one region while unemployed workers live in another illustrates a geographic mismatch driving structural unemployment.
Where people slip
Structural unemployment describes a systemic mismatch, distinct from someone briefly between jobs; the two require different remedies.
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