structural unemployment

Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
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Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
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Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.
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For much of the past half century, the rustbelt states suffered high levels of unemployment.
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Youth unemployment currently stands at over 50 percent, and that in a country where half the population is under the age of 18.
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"Unemployment," in the case of the willing and able becomes henceforth a social crime.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Some structural features not previously used were found to have taxonomic significance.
Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks|John A. White
And then I suppose hell be out of work over there, and we shall be hearing of the unemployment in the Colonies!
Chains|Elizabeth Baker
Massinger and Field accepted frankly the structural awkwardness of their plot as they had fashioned or found it.
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The structural fault is less surprising when it is ascertained to be fundamentalinevitable in the theme.
The Fatal Dowry|Philip Massinger

British Dictionary definitions for structural unemployment

noun

economics unemployment resulting from changes in the structure of an industry as a result of changes in either technology or taste

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Cultural definitions for structural unemployment

structural unemployment

Relatively long-lasting unemployment resulting from long-term shifts in economies and markets rather than short-term savings in economic conditions.

notes for structural unemployment

Structural unemployment tends to develop around major changes in an economy, such as the move from an industrial to a technological economy. Workers displaced by the decline of the old economy tend not to be trained in fields suitable for the new economy, so they remain out of work.