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Employment : Growth, Informalisation And Other Issues

Question
CBSEENEC11009392

Victor is able to get work only for two hours in a day. Rest of the day, he is looking for work. Is he unemployed? Why? What kind of jobs could persons like Victor could be doing?

Solution

Victor is able to work for only two hours a day and is looking for work for the remaining period of the day. He is a casual wage labourer. He may be called under-employed. India's 33 percent of the total workforce constitutes of casual wage labourers.