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According to Malthus population increases by progression of kind:

1. Systematic
2. Arithmetic
3. Geometric
4. Automatic

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Productivity of labour can be increased by:

1. Raising minimum wages
2. Raising average wages
3. Increasing skills of workers
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

All labour is:

1. Homogeneous
2. Heterogeneous
3. Lazy
4. Intelligent

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Mobility of labour:

1. Increases efficiency of labour
2. Spoils labour
3. Increases division of labour
4. (a) and (c) of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Unemployment due to mechanization of agriculture is:

1. Seasonal
2. Structural
3. Industrial
4. Personal

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Labour includes:

1. The inentor
2. The innovator
3. The unskilled worker
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A skilled worker is an example of:

1. Scarcity
2. An entrepreneur
3. The labour input
4. (b) and (c) above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The labour force participation rate is:

1. Proportion of working population
2. Proportion of population working or seeking work
3. Proportion of skilled workers in the population
4. Female working population

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Union leaders are in a better position to bargain for higher wages if demand for labour is:

1. Elastic
2. Inelastic
3. Very large
4. Permanent

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which form the largest percentage of national income is earned:

1. Interest income
2. Proprietor s income
3. Employees wages
4. Rental income

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who is unemployed:

1. Housewife
2. College student
3. A peer who lives on gifts from mureeds
4. A freshly graduated engineer who is searching for a job

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Standard of living of workers depends upon their:

1. Nominal wages
2. Real wages
3. Average product
4. Govt. policy

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Unemployment takes place because of:

1. High demand for labour
2. More exports
3. High population growth rate
4. Higher education

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Unemployment rate in Pakistan is:

1. Less than 5%
2. Between 5% and 20%
3. Between 20% and 30%
4. More than 30%

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Working population in Pakistan is in the ratio of total population:

1. 172
2. 173
3. 174
4. 175

✅ Correct Answer: 2

This is a cause of unemployment:

1. Foreign loans
2. Fast population growth
3. Huge expenditure of government
4. High Literacy rate

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Productivity of labour is measured by:

1. Measuring GDP
2. Production per hour
3. Production per day
4. Total working hours

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Various kinds of unemployment are:

1. Seasonal and Circular
2. Seasonal and Structural
3. Structural and Social
4. Private and Public

✅ Correct Answer: 2

These steps will raise productivity of labour:

1. High wages longer hours of work
2. High wages shorter hours of work
3. High wages specialization
4. (b) and (c) above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

By 2010 Pakistan s total population reached approximately:

1. 14 crores
2. 17 crores
3. 20 crores
4. 23 crores

✅ Correct Answer: 2

By 2010 Pakistan s total population reached approximately:

1. 153 million
2. 173 million
3. 193 million
4. 213 million

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The nature of unemployment due to mechanization of agriculture is:

1. Seasonal
2. Structural
3. Industrial
4. Permanent

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Mobility of labour:

1. Increases efficiency of labour
2. Decreases efficiency of labour
3. Does not affect efficiency of labour
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Rate of growth of population in Pakistan is:

1. Increasing
2. Decreasing
3. Constant
4. Unpredictable

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Mobility of labour depends upon:

1. Age of the worker
2. Attidude of the worker
3. Education of the worker
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Population census was held in Pakistanh in:

1. 1994
2. 1998
3. 2002
4. 2006

✅ Correct Answer: 2