English Explanatory Dictionary

technological unemployment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

technological unemployment

Related words

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