institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …

institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …

Differences in regional unemployment rates are often used to describe regional economic inequality. This paper asks … whether changes in regional unemployment differences in West Germany are persistent over time. Only if such changes are … dispersion of unemployment rates. Our analysis follows a time-series approach to economic convergence and we test whether …