convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …

Price and output level convergence between new member states and the existing EU necessarily implies inflation and … nominal criteria are suspended, the policy instruments required to achieve euro convergence are in the hands of the individual …

focused on the administrative convergence, considering that it is impossible to conceive a strong European construction … tries to emphasize few signs of convergence between Romanian and Bulgarian employment policy …

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 …

patterns of convergence and divergence of European minimum income schemes in the period 1992/2001-2012. We expand on previous … studies on convergence of social assistance schemes in at least three ways. First, this paper provides a recent and detailed … contextualize our findings with regard to convergence and to clarify the underlying policy measures. Finally this paper covers a …

measured with national poverty lines, the crisis seems to have halted, but not (yet) substantially reversed the convergence …

that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …

A switching regression approach with imperfect sample separation information is used to determine convergence clubs …. Regime classification allows one to determine which countries belong to the related convergence clubs. Initial per capita GDP …