Which of the following types of unemployment is found in India when people are employed for a certain period of a year in tourist resorts and various tourism-related activities in the mountain regions, but are unemployed in off-seasons?

Correct — B. What the item describes is work that exists only for part of the year — the tourist season in the hills — with nothing to do once it ends.

That is seasonal unemployment: people hold jobs for some months and are idle for the rest, because the demand for their labour is tied to a season rather than to their skill or the economy's health.

Agriculture between sowing and harvest is the standard Indian example, and tourism, brick kilns and construction behave the same way → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Under employment — Underemployment means working below capacity — fewer hours than you want, or a job beneath your qualification — while still holding work. The item describes months with no work at all.
• (c)
  Disguised unemployment — Disguised unemployment hides surplus workers inside a job: take one of five brothers off the family field and output does not fall. Here the workers are genuinely needed in season and genuinely idle out of it.
• (d)
  Cyclical unemployment — Cyclical unemployment follows the business cycle, rising when a downturn cuts demand for goods. The off-season in the item returns on the calendar, not on a recession.

Indian textbooks sort unemployment by its cause, and SSC asks you to match a described situation to the right label.

Seasonal unemployment is fixed to the calendar.
Disguised unemployment is surplus labour concealed inside a job, so the marginal worker adds nothing to output.

Cyclical unemployment comes from a fall in aggregate demand during a slump.
Structural unemployment comes from a mismatch between the skills workers have and the jobs the economy creates.

Seasonal and disguised unemployment are treated as the characteristic rural Indian forms, while cyclical unemployment is described as a feature of industrial economies.

Key facts

• Seasonal unemployment recurs at the same time each year because the work itself is seasonal.
• Disguised unemployment means more people work on a job than it needs, so the extra worker adds nothing to output.
• Agriculture, tourism, construction and brick kilns are the sectors most often cited for seasonal unemployment in India.
• Cyclical unemployment is caused by a fall in aggregate demand during a downturn.

Common traps

• Choosing disguised unemployment because the setting is rural.
• Reading "employed for a certain period of a year" as underemployment, which is about the depth of the work rather than the months of it.

No directly related past PYQ was found.