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 …