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Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

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Unemployment due to power cut is called ______ unemployment.

  1. frictional

  2. cyclical

  3. seasonal

  4. voluntary
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Frictional unemployment is the temporary unemployment that occurs when workers are between jobs or when production is interrupted by factors like power cuts or supply chain issues.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

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Educated unemployment is ______ unemployment.

  1. open

  2. hidden

  3. cyclical

  4. frictional
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Educated unemployment is considered open unemployment because these individuals are actively looking for work and are visibly without jobs, unlike disguised unemployment.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

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Defective education system causes _____ unemployment.

  1. educated

  2. technological

  3. frictional

  4. rural
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When the education system does not align with the skills required by the market, it leads to educated unemployment.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Labour Force consists of ________.

  1. all people officially employed or unemployed

  2. all people over the age of 18 but less than 58 years of age

  3. all youth having passed matriculate examination

  4. all the three
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The labour force is defined as the sum of employed and unemployed individuals who are willing and able to work.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched in ________.

  1. Dec. 2004

  2. Dec. 2003

  3. Dec. 2000

  4. Dec. 1999
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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched on December 25, 2000, to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected rural habitations.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was announced on ________.

  1. 2nd February 2006

  2. 2nd October 2006

  3. 1st April 2009

  4. 31st December 2009
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was notified on September 7, 2005, and the scheme was launched on February 2, 2006.