ABSTRACT
The present chapter deals with incomes mainly derived from labour. Workers earning such incomes are generally classified as ‘employees’ in population censuses and labour force surveys. The proportion of such workers in the labour force is generally lower in the LDCs (about 40 per cent around 1970) than in the DCs (around 80 per cent). The main reason is that the agricultural sector is a large part of the economy of LDCs, and a high proportion of the labour force in this sector consists of farmers working on their own account and of unpaid family workers.
