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Class 11 Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues worksheet
CBSE Social Science. Workers and the worker-population ratio, self-employed, regular and casual workers, workforce by sector, formal and informal sectors, kinds of unemployment. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
Activities that contribute to gross national product are:
- leisure activities
- voluntary work only
- household chores only
- economic activities
Answer
(d) economic activities
- 2.
By status, a lawyer with her own practice is a:
- disguisedly unemployed worker
- unemployed person
- self-employed
- casual wage labourer
Answer
(c) self-employed
- 3.
What is meant by “seasonal unemployment”?
- more people on a job than are needed
- workers who own and run an enterprise
- workers per 100 people
- no work between farm seasons
Answer
(d) no work between farm seasons
Section B · short answer
- 4.
Who is a worker?
Answer
Anyone engaged in an economic activity that adds to GNP, paid or self-employed, including those briefly away due to illness.
- 5.
Explain each term: (a) jobless growth (b) worker-population ratio
Answer
(a) output growing without matching employment (b) workers per 100 people
Section C · long answer
- 6.
Explain the three kinds of workers by status.
Answer
Self-employed workers own and run an enterprise; regular salaried employees are paid regularly by an employer; casual wage labourers are hired when needed and paid for the work done.
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