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    Consider the following pairs
               Jobs                         Nature of Work
    1. Blue-Collar                Manual labour
    2. Gold-Collar                Highly-skilled Workers
    3. Red-Collar                 Government Workers
    Identify the correctly matched pair?

    2 only

    Incorrect Answer

    1&2 only

    Incorrect Answer

    3 only

    Incorrect Answer

    All of the above

    Correct Answer
    Explanation:

    All codes are correctly matched.

    Different Collar Jobs

    • Blue-Collar Worker: It is a member of the working class, who performs manual labour and earns an hourly wage.
    • White-Collar Worker: It is a salaried professional, typically referring to general office workers and management.
    • Gold-Collar Worker: It is used to refer to highly-skilled knowledge people who are highly valuable to the company. Example: Lawyers, doctors, research scientists, etc.
    • Grey-Collar Worker: It refers to the balance of employed people not classified as white or blue-collar. Although grey-collar is something used to describe those who work beyond the age of retirement. Example: Firefighters, police officers, health care professionals, Security Guards, etc.
    • Green-Collar Worker: It is a worker who is employed in the environmental sectors of the economy. Example: People working in alternative energy sources like solar panels, Greenpeace, World Wide Fund for nature, etc.
    • Pink-Collar Worker: It is employed in a job that is traditionally considered to be women’s work and is often low-paid.
    • Scarlet-Collar Worker: It is a term often used to refer to people who work in the pornography industry, especially women entrepreneurs in the field of internet pornography.
    • Red-Collar Worker: Government workers of all types.
    • Open-Collar Worker: It is a worker who works from home, especially via the internet.

    Hence option 4th is correct.


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