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What is structural unemployment?

What is structural unemployment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (economics) A type of unemployment explained by a mismatch between the requirements of the employers and the properties (such as skills, age, gender or location) of the unemployed.
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The actual result was the decline by a third of Gaza's GDP, structural unemployment rates of between 25-30 per cent and the second Intifada.
Bad historical luck could lock a group into the wrong skills or geography, causing retarded growth and structural unemployment.
In addition to a reduction in structural unemployment, deregulation also lowers the incentive for surprise inflation.
These factors contributed to sluggish economic growth and persistently high structural unemployment, especially in the eastern states.
Before 1994 greenfield investment was largely confined to areas with high structural unemployment.
President Chirac's team made pledges on reforms which could diminish the high level of overall structural unemployment.

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