Question

Which of these folks are structurally unemployed?

Someone who is out of work while they are changing job

Someone who is unemployed because of discrimination in hiring practices.

Someone who lost their job because of personality conflicts with their employers.

Someone who is unemployed because a technological breakthrough made their skills less important or obsolete to their employer.

Someone who is unemployed because they got laid off during a recession

Answer 1

Answer - Someone who is unemployed because a technological breakthrough made their skills less important or obsolete to their employer.

Reason -

structural unemployment basically occurs when the kind of employees needed by an employer doesn't match the skill sets of the workers available.

For an instance,

This can be because of change in technology. Let's say, in an industry where the workers are working manually, if such industry becomes automated, the employer will now need the workers who can run the machines and the present workers who work manually becomes obsolete for the employer causing an structural unemployment for the manual workers.