Tag: employment - trends and structure

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Illiterate people are exploited by not being paid their _______ wages.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. maximum

  2. highest

  3. minimum

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: C

The level of input has ______ relationship with the level of employment.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. direct

  2. indirect

  3. significant

  4. normal

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The level of input has direct relationship with the level of employment. This states that input and output has a positive technical or functional relationship. When the level of input or raw materials increases, the level of output also rises.

The higher the level of output the larger is the employment.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

Which of the following organisations has been established mainly to promote micro, small and medium industrial sector in India?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. NABARD

  2. SIDBI

  3. IDBI Bank

  4. EXIM Bank

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following type of employment is found in India?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Structural employment

  2. Quasi employment

  3. disguised employment

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D

Real wage is equal to which of the following?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. $\displaystyle\frac{Profit}{price level}$

  2. $\displaystyle\frac{Rent}{price level}$

  3. $\displaystyle\frac{Interest}{price level}$

  4. $\displaystyle\frac{Money wage}{price level}$

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Correct Option: D

Which of the following is the name of the organisations, created to provide full employment and self-reliance to the women folk in India?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. OECD

  2. ROSCA

  3. SVP

  4. SEWA

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Self-Employed Women's Association of India(SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India. SEWA was founded in $1972$ by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office was located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and it works in several states of India. SEWA members are women who earn a living through their own labour or small business. SEWA is strongly supported by the World Bank which holds it out as a model to be replicated elsewhere.

Percentage of people in non-working age group is known as ________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. working - non working ratio

  2. dependency rate

  3. non-dependency rate

  4. none of the above.

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Correct Option: B

_____________ is a statement which shows a maximum acceptable human qualities necessary to perform a job satisfactorily.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Job evaluation

  2. Job description

  3. Job specification

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C