ECON 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gross Domestic Product, Central Board Of Secondary Education, National Council Of Educational Research And Training
Learning Objectives:-
1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts
a. Meaning of worker
b. Labour force and work force
c. Meaning of employment
d. Wage employment
e. Regular workers(Regular Salaried employees)
f. Casual Workers
3. Participation of people in employment
a. Worker-population ration on the basis of region
b. Distribution of employment by gender
c. Distributions of employment by region
d. Distributions of employment in different sectors
e. Distributions of rural-urban employment in different sectors
4. Growth of employment and Gross Domestic Product(GDP)
5. Changing structure of employment
a. Casualization of work force.
6. Informalisation of Indian workforce
a. Formal or Organized sector.
b. Informal or unorganized sector.
Chapter 16: Employment
growth,
Information and Other issues
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Worker: A worker is an individual who is involved in some productive activities to earn a
living.
Who and all included in workers?
It is not only people those who are paid workers also includes self-employed people like
shopkeepers, barbers, cobblers etc.. Workers include all those people who are engaged in work
whether for others (paid workers or self-employed)
Difference between labour force and work force?
Labour Force: All persons, who are working (who have a job) and though not working, are
seeking and are available for work, are dram to be in the labour force.
1 Mark Questions:-
Q 1) Who is worker?
A 1) A worker is an individual, who is involved in some productive activity, to earn a living.
Q 2) Why do people work?
A 2) People work for earning a living which helps them and their families to survive.
Q 3) Who all are included in labour force?
A 3) All persons, who are working (have job) and though not working, are seeking and are
available for work, are deemed to be in the labour force.
Q 4) Give the meaning of work force.
A 4) The number of persons, who are actually employed at a particular time are known as work
force.
Q 5) Define worker – population ratio.
A 5) Worker- population ration is the percentage of total population engaged in work.
Q 6) what is meant by labour force participation rate?
A 6) The ratio of labour force to total participation is called labour force participation rate.
Q 7) What is information of workforce?
A 7) Informalisation of workforce refers to a situation whereby the proportion of workforce in
the informal sector to total workforce increases.
Q 8) Are the following workers- a beggar, a thief, a smuggler, a gambler? Why?
A 8) No, They are not workers because they are not doing any productive activity.
Q 9) Compared to urban women, more rural women are found working. Why?
A 9) More rural women are found working because of their poor economic condition as
compared to urban women.
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Document Summary
Worker: a worker is an individual who is involved in some productive activities to earn a living. It is not only people those who are paid workers also includes self-employed people like shopkeepers, barbers, cobblers etc workers include all those people who are engaged in work whether for others (paid workers or self-employed) Labour force: all persons, who are working (who have a job) and though not working, are seeking and are available for work, are dram to be in the labour force. A 1) a worker is an individual, who is involved in some productive activity, to earn a living. A 2) people work for earning a living which helps them and their families to survive. A 3) all persons, who are working (have job) and though not working, are seeking and are available for work, are deemed to be in the labour force. Q 4) give the meaning of work force.
