why is structural unemployment bad 
structural unemployment is tough to overcome because of how engrained some jobs used to be in the economy yet these jobs are no longer needed to overcome structural unemployment workers usually need to be willing to learn new skills adapt to using new products change industries or physically move to new locations as opposed to cyclical unemployment that is resolved through market cycles or seasonal unemployment that changes with time structural unemployment requires deliberate action to overcome the bottom linestructural unemployment occurs when there are fundamental changes to the economy that change the demand of services in these cases people lose their jobs because they are simply no longer needed mainly because of consumer preferences structural unemployment is a more severe type of unemployment compared to cyclical frictional or seasonal unemployment 