WORK REWARDS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRUCTURE—AN OUTLINE OF THE PROBLEM

ABSTRACT Occupational prestige and earnings, together with 'over- ' or 'underreward ' in these respects relative to socio-demographic characteristics of the workforce, are used to aggregate Australian and Japanese industries into two economic sectors. The industrial structure of the sectors and the detailed socio-economic achievement patterns in different sectors in the two countries are subsequently analysed. In both countries, social services constitute the core of the first sector; however, this sector also contains most modern manufacturing industries in Japan, and agriculture in Australia. The sectors differ not only in their defining variables but also in the configurations of various income and prestige determinants