A strawberry farm employs additional workers to pick fruit during June and July. When the harvest ends, these workers have no paid work until the following year's harvest, although they remain available for work and continue looking for jobs.
State the type of unemployment experienced by these workers.
Give one reason why this type of unemployment occurs in this situation.
65 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Economics 3.2 Low unemployment, covering 3.2.1 Employment and unemployment, 3.2.2 Measuring unemployment, 3.2.3 Calculate the unemployment rate, 3.2.4 Analyse unemployment figures, 3.2.5 Types of unemployment, and 3.2.6 Causes and consequences of unemployment. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.