| Rural/Urban
Occupational Structures |
| |
Rural |
Urban |
| MEDC |
Primary industry (farming/forestry) is less important.
Increasing numbers are employed in the tertiary sector: leisure and
tourism, teleworking, (associated with counterurbanisation), and office
work (associated with decentralisation). |
Mainly tertiary employment in the post-industrial knowledge
economy |
| LEDC |
Large primary sector (farming). |
Large service sector. Many employed in the informal economy. |
| NIC |
Large but declining primary (farming) sector. Growing secondary
sector (transnationals use cheap female labour in the countryside). |
Large secondary sector (transnationals), with a growing tertiary
sector to serve the needs of the transnationals. |
