Structural unemployment
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Skills mismatch as a macro cause: what the education system produces has little to do with what employers list
When an industry migrates the whole supply chain leaves and the workers left behind are not unskilled but stranded
Structural unemployment is the hardest to treat because vacancies and workers sit in the same economy and never meet
How well do retraining programmes work for a 45-year-old learning a new trade
The line between structural and frictional unemployment: whether the missing skill can be learned in a few weeks
New drawings and a new parts supplier leave a fitter with ten years on the floor suddenly unqualified
Regional mismatch: the jobs are in Shenzhen and the workers are in the northeast and moving costs more than the wage gap
As manufacturing upgrades the low-skill roles disappear and the workers pushed out have nowhere obvious to go
When cyclical and structural unemployment overlap do you fix demand first or retrain first
Telling structural and cyclical unemployment apart: one is about skills and the other is about orders
Structural unemployment takes a generation to work through because whole careers have to be rebuilt
Four thousand coal miners cannot code and that gap is textbook structural unemployment
Credential inflation is also a mismatch: graduates doing work that never needed a degree
Self-checkout and digital banking permanently deleted cashier and teller roles
If driverless trucks actually scale what happens to several million drivers
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