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 …

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

-country differences in inequality permanent, or gradually narrowing? Equivalently, is there convergence not just in the first moment of … individual income (GDP per capita), but convergence in distribution? …

This paper offers new tests of the `convergence hypothesis'. It first analyses the pattern of growth of measured inputs … is led to reject the convergence theory. In order to understand what lies at the heart of this discrepancy, the paper … school enrolments (or the UN-conditional convergence of the stock of measured inputs would not hold), but because the law of …

. Non-convergence traps are more likely when policies and institutions are endogenized, enabling beneficiaries of existing …

This paper focuses on one possible explanation for the empirical evidence of: (a) income convergence among the world … outcomes that are consistent with the convergence-divergence empirical evidence. While subsistence consumption can lead to …

This paper surveys the recent literature on convergence across countries and regions. We discuss the main convergence … exploring the role of alternative convergence mechanisms and the possible shortcomings of panel data techniques for convergence …

This paper analyses the sources of post-war growth and convergence in the OECD using an extension of Mankiw, Romer and …. Technological catch-up is found to be very fast and seems to have played an important role in OECD convergence during the first half … of the sample period. The exhaustion of this effect, moreover, may help explain the slowdown of growth and convergence …