An inventor in Burginville developed a fantastic new dictation machine that perfectly records speech and turns it into a typed document. Unfortunately, that meant that unemployment increased among typists working in offices. Which type of unemployment is this? Explain.

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Lance Singleton

20 August, 23:33

An inventor in Burginville developed a fantastic new dictation machine that perfectly records speech and turns it into a typed document. Unfortunately, that meant that unemployment increased among typists working in offices. Which type of unemployment is this? Explain.

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Katelyn · Answer 1

Technological unemployment

Explanation:

Technological unemployment is a form of unemployment that arise as a result of improvement and development of new technologies. The aim is to improve the process of speed, labor saving and and quality and overall efficiency.

As it is known that a machine is capable of running production at a faster rate compared to human effort, therefore its introduction or upgrade leads to reduction in required human effort

The unemployment effect of the new dictation machine falls into this category.

Steven Kirby · Answer 2

This type of unemployment is called structural unemployment

Explanation:

Structural unemployment refers to the unemployment which happens due to a structural change in the economy, for instance, when there is a development of a new technology or industry. For example, when a person finds a cure for all dental diseases, and as a result, a dentist loses his/her job, this will lead to being structurally unemployed.

As we can see in the scenario presented above, the invention has cost the typists their jobs, and this is because there is a mismatch between the skills of the typists and the potentials offered by the invention.