Unemployment has many shapes, forms, and causes. The pandemic and its aftermath created macroeconomic shifts in the job market. While some had more opportunities for work than before, the U.S., at ...

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This essay examines Durkheim's functionalism, to argue that it cannot be adequately understood through later movements of structural functionalism, especially Parsonian functionalism. Concretely, for ...

Structural unemployment is a longer-lasting form of unemployment caused by fundamental shifts in an economy and exacerbated by extraneous factors such as technology, competition, and government policy ...