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 …

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … shown that, although this effect did slow down convergence, its magnitude was too small to account for the discrepancy …

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

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 …

convergence. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, a period both of globalization and convergence, it shows that trade had an … important force for convergence during this period, however. The analysis suggests that more attention should be paid to open … economy forces when discussing convergence. …

World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the … leaders, especially in real wages and living standards. Some, like Ireland, achieved convergence without industrialization … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or …