The group of unemployed members of a community who are physically handicapped or disable, is generally classified under unemployment as?

Analyze the question: It asks which type of unemployment covers people who are jobless because of physical handicap or disability.

Explain the concept: Types of unemployment:

• Frictional: Temporary unemployment while workers move between jobs or search for a new one. The workers are employable, and the gap is short.
• Cyclical: Caused by a downturn in the business cycle (recession or depression), when demand for goods and labour falls.
• Residual: Unemployment among people who are hard to employ because of physical or mental disability, old age, or similar personal handicaps. They remain unemployed even when the economy is doing well.
• Hidden (disguised): People who appear employed but contribute little or nothing to output, or who are underemployed (common in agriculture). They are not counted as openly unemployed.

Solution:

1. The group in the question is unemployed because of a physical condition, not because of a job change (so not frictional).
2. It is not caused by a recession (so not cyclical).
3. They are not "employed but unproductive" (so not hidden).
4. Their problem is a personal handicap that makes them hard to place in jobs. That is exactly the definition of residual unemployment.

Answer: C. residual

Tip: Think of "residual" as "the ones left over" after all other jobseekers have been absorbed. The disabled, the very old, and those with chronic illness are the usual examples. If a JAMB question mentions disability, handicap, or old age, think residual.