Different between seasnal and disguised unemployment
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Seasonal Unemployment:
Getting employment only for the part of the year in certain sectors, like agriculture is called seasonal unemployment.
It is mostly found in agro-based industry.
It is found both in rural as well as urban areas.
There are certain busy seasons when sowing, harvesting, weaving and threshing is done.
Disguised Unemployment:
A situation wherein marginal productivity of labour is zero. It is not visible and found among wage earners, mostly in agriculture.
It is mostly found in agriculture
It is found in rural sectors only.
The work requires the service of five people but engages eight people.
DISGUISED UNEMPLOYMENT
It is a type of employment under which people appear to be employed but actually they are not employed.
It is mainly found in rural areas .
E.g Sometime in agricultural families eight people are working in the farm whereas only five people are needed to do that work . Thus three surplus and they are not needed on the farm.
These 3 extra people are removed from the farm the production from the farm will not decrease .
SEASONAL UNEMPLOYMENT
It is a type of unemployment under which workers are employed only for a particular season.It is found in both rural as well as urban areas .
People depend upon agriculture usually for such a kind of problem.There are certain busy seasons when farmers sowing seeds, harvest weeding and threshing is done .But when the plants are growing there are not much work .
During this period they remain unemployed and are said to be SEASONAL UNEMPLOYMENT.