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technological unemployment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables
tech-no-log-i-cal unem-ploy-ment
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Unemployment caused by technological advances. This includes machines and software substituting for human labor, advances in efficiency negating the need for friction-based jobs, and increased data availability undermining professions that rely on information asymmetry.

Uncountable

Usage

Phrases

classical unemployment cyclical unemployment frictional unemployment Marxian unemployment seasonal unemployment structural unemployment

Frequently Paired Words

classical unemployment cyclical unemployment frictional unemployment Marxian unemployment seasonal unemployment structural unemployment

Questions

What does technological unemployment mean?
Unemployment caused by technological advances. This includes machines and software substituting for human labor, advances in efficiency negating the need for friction-based jobs, and increased data availability undermining professions that rely on information asymmetry.

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