For example, suppose that you have many workers qualified and skilled to work in construction, but households have decided that their houses are more than large enough, and wish to fill them with manufactured goods. This would produce structural unemployment to the extent that the ex-construction workers could not do things in manufacturing that would make it worthwhile for manufacturing firms to hire them.
比如说，你手下有一帮经验丰富的建筑工人，但消费者却认为自己的房子已经足够大了，他们需要些家居用品来装点自己的家。这就会导致结构性失业，因为这些前建筑工人做起家具来手脚可不利索，自然也没有制造业企业肯雇用他们。