Answer to Question #135087 in Macroeconomics for December

Question

Due to coronavirus pandemic, many education institutions adopted an online teaching method.
This meant that all educators must now be able to do teaching online. Mary, a contract educator,
was laid off by her employer because she does not know how to use online teaching tools. Until
she finds a new job, Mary is…
[1] structurally unemployed.
[2] cyclically unemployed.
[3] seasonally unemployed.
[4] frictionally unemployed.

Answer 1

Mary is structurally unemployed. This is because she does not posses the skills that solve the current needs for the job as required by the employer.