Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If … participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied. We investigate this hypothesis for the … support absolute ß-convergence across Iran's provinces and provide some evidence on the adverse effect of rent seeking on …