The paper surveys the main trends of per capita income convergence in the European Union. It stresses that income … disparities have ceased to diminish across the European regions since 1980, although convergence between countries has continued … behind income convergence are analized by means of the decomposition of per capita income in labor productivity and …

Main trends of per capita income convergence in Portugal and the European Union are surveyed. An explanation is given … to the fact that in the last two decades countries have converged, while no visible convergence has taken place among the … distribution of the stock of existing firms in the European Union is fixed, it is assumed that the degree of convergence follows …

placing a transition country on a development path that guarantees convergence to EU employment structures. …

A popular methodology of studying spatial income inequality is analysis of beta-convergence (i.e. an inverse … growth theory predicts income convergence among economies (countries or regions within a country), and that beta-convergence …