We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …

The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the … 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of … convergence changed over time and is this speed satisfactory. (b) Is convergence a phenomenon limited to the core EC regions as …

The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the … 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of … convergence changed over time and is this speed satisfactory. (b) Is convergence a phenomenon limited to the core EC regions as …

convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …