structural unemployment

structural unemployment definition - finance
Unemploy-ment that persists even when economic growth is strong. People who have been welfare recipients for a long time or who have limited education or language skills account for much of structural unemployment.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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