convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

measured with national poverty lines, the crisis seems to have halted, but not (yet) substantially reversed the convergence …

convergence, especially among EU countries. Besides, we observe that high ‘benefit decommodification’ is consistent with high ‘in …

patterns of convergence and divergence of European minimum income schemes in the period 1992/2001-2012. We expand on previous … studies on convergence of social assistance schemes in at least three ways. First, this paper provides a recent and detailed … contextualize our findings with regard to convergence and to clarify the underlying policy measures. Finally this paper covers a …

large increases in minimum income benefits has been pursued, leading to a remarkable convergence of relative benefit levels. …

that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …