Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Economics

Chapter

Indian Economic Development: Employment - Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues

Question:

In the question given below there are 2 statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Choose the correct alternative from the following options.

Assertion (A)- By knowing the status with which a worker is placed in an enterprise, it may be possible to know one dimension — quality of employment in a country.

Reason (R)- There are 2 categories of workers: a) Self employed workers b) Hired workers - Casual wage labourers and Regular salaried employees

Options:

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(A) Is true but (R) is false.

(A) Is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer:

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Explanation:

By knowing the status with which a worker is placed in an enterprise, it may be possible to know one dimension — quality of employment in a country. It also enables us to know the attachment a worker has with his or her job and the authority she or he has over the enterprise and over other co-workers. Let us take three workers from the construction industry — a cement shop owner, a construction worker and a civil engineer of a construction company. Since the status of each one of them is different from another, they are also called differently. Here, the cement shop owner is self employed, construction worker is casual wage labourer and civil engineer in the company is regular salaried employee.