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Structural Deficits

Structural deficits are the form of deficits that form the part of public sector deficits. Structural deficit is completely different from cyclical deficit in such a way that it exists even when the economy is in good shape and is performing extremely well. The issues and problems of structural deficits can be addressed only with the help of direct and explicit government policies. These things include increasing tax rates, increasing tax base and reducing spending even the entitlements. The structural deficits are chronic and long term in nature and require committed and strong action and measures from the government. The structural surplus is exactly opposite of structural deficit.

Structural deficits are noticed when the economy is at its full and optimal potential. The sum of structural deficit and cyclical deficit forms the total budget deficit. Many of them give importance to structural deficits, as they are a huge problem. There will be always a mismatch between spending and tax revenues even when the economy is doing well. As the debt is grows at the rate of GDP or less than the rate of GDP, even the most serious and persistent deficits of structural kind can be tolerated.

The problem arise only when the structural deficit growth exceeds and is more than that of the growth of the GDP. This results in interest payments growing proportionally and alarmingly at the growth of the budget and when they grow higher the size of the taxes increases. This requires cut in the spending at the rate close to the growth of the budget deficit. Since this is not possible greater increase in taxes are the need of the hour.

Structural unemployment results due to structural deficit. This is due to the resultant mismatch between number of job vacancies available and the growing number of workers looking for those jobs. The number of vacancies may equal or be more than that of the number of unemployed workers. This is due to the fact that the unemployed workers don’t have the required skills or techniques and they don’t fit in the job that requires special skills and techniques to perform. It becomes extremely difficult to match the skills of the job and the skills of the unemployed persons. The best example for this scenario is the combination of shortage of nurses along with the availability of excess programmers in the field of information technology.

The resultant changes in the capitalist economy gave rise to structural deficit and structural unemployment. This is due to the dynamic changes in capital flight coupled with the rapid changes in technologies. But even during these situations one can be doubly sure that the labor markets cannot and will not be as fluid as the changes in the financial markets. The unemployment resulting due to structural deficit may also result in the increase in the cyclical unemployment. The problems related to debt may also increase the number of people who become homeless. So the government should take steps and proactive measures to curb structural deficit.

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