The line between structural and frictional unemployment: whether the missing skill can be learned in a few weeks

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The gap between leaving one job and starting the next runs about ten weeks and that is normal frictional churn Structural unemployment is the hardest to treat because vacancies and workers sit in the same economy and never meet Cyclical unemployment and frictional unemployment both leave you jobless for months but only one of them needs a stimulus package When an industry migrates the whole supply chain leaves and the workers left behind are not unskilled but stranded Skills mismatch as a macro cause: what the education system produces has little to do with what employers list New drawings and a new parts supplier leave a fitter with ten years on the floor suddenly unqualified Four thousand coal miners cannot code and that gap is textbook structural unemployment Does moving to another city to find work turn a frictional spell into something longer How well do retraining programmes work for a 45-year-old learning a new trade Regional mismatch: the jobs are in Shenzhen and the workers are in the northeast and moving costs more than the wage gap