Sektorwandel

German

Etymology

Sektor (sector) +‎ Wandel (change, transformation)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzɛktoːɐ̯ˌvandl̩]
  • Hyphenation: Sek‧tor‧wan‧del

Noun

Sektorwandel m (strong, genitive Sektorwandels, plural Sektorwandel)

  1. (economics) sectoral change (the shift in the relative importance of different economic sectors within an economy)
    Der Sektorwandel beschreibt den Übergang von der Agrar- zur Industrie- und schließlich zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft.
    Sectoral change describes the transition from an agrarian to an industrial and finally to a service society.

Declension

Synonyms

  • Strukturwandel (structural change; often used as a broader synonym)
  • Drei-Sektoren-Hypothese (the underlying economic theory by Clark and Fourastié)

Antonyms

  • Sektorstabilität (stability of the sectoral distribution)

Coordinate terms