structural unemployment
noun [U] ECONOMICSDefinition
› a situation where there are people without work because they live in areas where jobs do not exist, or because they do not have the necessary skills for jobs that exist: The recession could have created structural unemployment in the US. → See also frictional unemployment, seasonal unemployment
(Definition of structural unemployment noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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