convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

-country convergence. When the observed changes in average household size across countries are taken into consideration, growth in living … divergence between different countries before 1950 is faster and the speed of convergence after 1950 is slower after adjusting …

We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence …

inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models …. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …

integration, so we augment a model of conditional wage convergence through the inclusion of sector-specific broad and narrow … supporting unconditional skill-specific wage convergence in EU sectors. In a conditional setting, (slow) wage convergence takes …

, their wholesale national gas markets are highly heterogeneous. We study the determinants of cross-country convergence of … pairwise, relative and σ-convergence. We show that there is evidence of pairwise price convergence and that some key … the existence of a convergence process. This result carries over to the notion of σ-convergence and is robust to a number …

estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …