Objective type questions from sectors of indian economy
Answers
Answer:
1. What type of unemployment is found in India?
(a) Structural Unemployment
(b) Seasonal unemployment
(c) Disguise unemployment
(d) All of the above
Answer d
Explanation: All of the above
2. If a person is ready to work at the prevailing wage rate in the market, but he is unable to find the work, then what type of unemployment would it be called?
(a) Voluntary unemployment
(b) Involuntary unemployment
(c) Seasonal unemployment
(d) None of the above
Answer b
Explanation: Involuntary unemployment. In this type of unemployment, the person wants to work but he does not get the job because the economy is lacking in providing the job.
3. In which type of unemployment do the marginal productivity of the workers is zero?
(a) Disguised Unemployment
(b) Involuntary unemployment
(c) Seasonal unemployment
(d) Structural Unemployment
Answer a
Explanation: Disguised Unemployment
4. What type of unemployment is found in developed countries?
(a) Involuntary unemployment
(b) Voluntary unemployment
(c) Structural unemployment
(d) Disguised Unemployment
Answer b
Explanation: Voluntary unemployment; work to the people in the developed country is easily available but they are not ready to work on the prevailing wage rate. So, they are voluntarily unemployed.
5. If new computers are being installed in a company and some employees are fired from the job due to lack of computer knowledge then what kind of unemployment will it be called?
(a) Disguised Unemployment
(b) Structural unemployment
(c) Hidden unemployment
(d) Frictional unemployment
Answer d
Explanation: Frictional unemployment. Such unemployed people can work again by learning computer but till the time they learn computer will be called unemployed.
6. What type of unemployment is found in the agriculture sector of India?
(a) Disguised Unemployment
(b) Voluntary unemployment
(c) Frictional unemployment
(d) None of the above
Answer a
Explanation: Disguised Unemployment
7. Cyclical and frictional unemployment are found in....... ?
(a) Less developed and developing countries both
(b) Developing countries
(c) Developed countries
(d) Less developed countries
Answer c
Explanation: Developed countries
8. Who developed the concept of disguised unemployment?
(a) John Keynes
(b) Amartya Sen
(c) John Robinson
(d) Alfred Marshall
Answer c
Explanation: John Robinson
9. What is the right formula to know the unemployment rate?
(a) Total number of unemployed / total labour force X 100
(b) Total labour force / Total number of unemployed x 100
(c) Total number of unemployed / total labour force x 1000
(d) Total labour force / Total number of unemployed x 1000
Ans. a
Explanation: Total number of unemployed / total labour force X 100
10. Who are counted in the labour force of a country?
(a) The population of 18 to 60 years of age
(b) The population of 15 to 65 years of age
(c) The population of 18 to 65 years of age
(d) Population of 21 to 62 years of age
Answer b
Explanation: The population of 15 to 65 years of age.