Recently, how to enhance the employability of the workforce and the quality of the environment becomes the focus of attention from all sectors of society in China. Providing diversified jobs for workers and achieving green urban development are important goals of China's new-type urbanization...

This paper investigates how the sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition of labor productivity has contributed to β-convergence, using a newly constructed eightsector database. The main findings are twofold. First, both within and sectoral reallocation have become important...

Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types is affected by local labor demand conditions. Local labor demand is identified by means of a...

The services sector is composed of a diverse range of services from retail and business services to education and health. Some services are used as inputs in production, while others have direct impacts on human capital development. In the Philippines, services account for 60 percent of GDP and...