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. …

Spatial convergence analysis of tax transfers from the Robin Hood Act - One alleges that the Robin Hood Act has allowed … ones. In doing methodologically so, an exploratory spatial data analysis and a convergence analysis are implemented to … were important in the analysis as well as there was no redistributive effect in the period because the convergence …

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 …

(starting in the 50s, at the outset of industrialization) of the convergence in productivity of the Portuguese economy towards … the most developed European countries. In an econometric equation of conditional convergence over the XXth century …, openness has a positive effect in growth potential, and the rate of convergence increases with the share of investment goods in …