Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Types Of Unemployment
- Technological
- innovations which increase
productivity creates
unemployment
- rise of internet has
displaced workers
- Workers with low and outdated skills
are most likely to be affected.
- Frictional Unemployment
- Transitional
Unemployment
because people are
moving between
jobs
- Unavoidable and
desirable as job
vacancies can be
fulfilled.
- Structural Unemployment
- When there is a
long-term decline in
demand in an industry
- Leading to
fewer jobs
demanded
- Jobs on a
production line
being replaced by
robots
- Most things now done
online eg. Online
banking
- Unemployment
caused by foreign
competition
- Mismatch
between
workers' skills
and
requirements
in new jobs
- Workers need to be re-trained
and given experience
- Globalisation
- trade
between
countries has
changed
- Causes
- Decline in
manufacturing
Industry
- Occupational
Immobility- when it is
difficult to move
between jobs
- Geographical
Immobility- When
it is difficult to
move between
areas
- Robots
replacing
jobs
- Foreign
Competition-
imports
increased
- Long term
Regional
decline
- Outsourcing
production
Overseas
- Cyclical Unemployment
- Involuntary
unemployment due to
lack of demand for
goods and services
- During Recession
unemployment
increases as
businesses fail
- Workers made redundant off
- Firms reduce
employment to cut
costs
- Labour Shedding
- Unemployment also
occurs during slowdown
phase of an economy
- More likely to occur when
there is a negative output
gap