Using panel data, this paper explores the role of infrastructure and human capital in the convergence of income levels … reject the hypothesis of non-convergence in per capita incomes of UE countries, but the results do not support the hypothesis … that the speed of convergence is affected by infrastructures. …

This paper tests the convergence hypothesis across the EU NUTS II regions between 1990 and 2001. It does that using the … working-age person. The results show that there is convergence of output per capita and productivity, but not of output per … working-age person. This is due to the fact that the evolution of demography plays in favour of convergence while employment …

This article focuses on convergence in terms of output per working-age person across regions in the European Union for … “objective 1” region improves the speed of convergence as compared to what would be expected, given the regions’ initial … conditions. We find evidence of conditional convergence among EU regions, with the quality of national institutions having a …