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Employment Structure by Economic Development

The document discusses the employment structure of countries at different levels of economic development, highlighting that developed countries have a higher percentage of workers in tertiary and quaternary sectors, while developing countries have more in the primary sector. It also outlines reasons for shifts in employment sectors over time, such as mechanization, urbanization, and increased demand for services. Examples from Nicaragua, Malaysia, and New Zealand illustrate these trends in employment structures.

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Employment Structure by Economic Development

The document discusses the employment structure of countries at different levels of economic development, highlighting that developed countries have a higher percentage of workers in tertiary and quaternary sectors, while developing countries have more in the primary sector. It also outlines reasons for shifts in employment sectors over time, such as mechanization, urbanization, and increased demand for services. Examples from Nicaragua, Malaysia, and New Zealand illustrate these trends in employment structures.

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EMPLOYMENT

STRUCTURE VARIES
Employment Structure and Development

● The employment structure of a country shows the percentage of


workers in the economy sectors.

● the workforce is divided in different ways in countries at different levels


of economic development

● The most developed countries usually have more people in the tertiary
or quaternary sectors.

● However in the developing countries, more people work in the primary


sector than in either the secondary or tertiary sector.
Changing employment structures over time
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CHANGES
1. Why do people in LICs work in primary sectors?
- Most people engaged in agricultural activities.
- Plenty of natural resources number
- There is no mechanization yet on primary sectors
2. Why do people start to work in secondary sector?
- There is mechanization in primary sector
- The resources have become exhausted (e.g. coal)
- Land use conversion (e.g farm land into factories)
- Urbanization (people work in the cities)
SUGGESTION FOR THE CHANGES
3. Why do people work in tertiary sectors?

- countries developed economically


- Increase demand in tourism
- Increase demand for education, transportation, communication.
- People have more free time and become wealthier there is greater demand
for leisure services.

4. Why do people work in quaternary sectors?

- Improvement in hi tech (e.g. internet)


- Lifestyle changes (online shop, online services)
- Increasing in tourism that affecting in flight sectors
Employment Structure and Development
● The employment structure of a country shows the percentage of
workers in the economy sectors.
● the workforce is divided in different ways in countries at different levels
of economic development
● The most developed countries usually have more people in the tertiary
or quaternary sectors.
● However in the developing countries, more people work in the primary
sector than in either the secondary or tertiary sector.
Employment structure in Less Economically
Developed Country (LEDC)
NICARAGUA

● GNI per capita : US$ 3960.


● Over half of all the working population
work in primary sector.
● Many people are subsistence as
farmers
● They eating the food they produce
● Much of the work on farms done by
hand rather that machinery.
Employment Structure In Newly Industrialised
Country (NIC)
MALAYSIA

● GNI per Capita : US$ 10.440


● Almost half of its population work in
secondary industry.
● Many people work in tertiary sector.
● They have a growing tourist industry,
and improvement in services such as
health care and education.
Employment in More Economically Developed
Country
NEW ZEALAND

● GNI per Capita : US$ 35.520


● They have a low proportion of people working in primary sector.
● The mechanisation which has replaced the jobs of people in the primary and
secondary
● Tertiary sector is the main employment sector as many people work in
hospitals, schools, offices, and financial services.

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