Assertion (A): Unemployment is said to exist when people who are willing to work at the going wages cannot find jobs.

Reason (A): Disguised unemployment happens when people are not able to find jobs during some months of the year.

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

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

(A) is correct but (R) is wrong

(A) is wrong but (R) is correct.

answer is C.

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Unemployment is when people willing to work at current wages cannot find jobs. Unemployment leads to poverty. Poverty is the lack of access to basic facilities like food, healthcare, education, and shelter.
Disguised unemployment occurs when a person, though employed, is made to do jobs that do not utilise his full potential, and the worker remains idle. Therefore, we can see that (A) is correct but (R ) is incorrect.
As unemployment leads to poverty, the poverty line is a method to measure poverty based on income and consumption levels. Unemployment negatively impacts both the income and consumption levels of an individual.

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