placing a transition country on a development path that guarantees convergence to EU employment structures. …

The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

A popular methodology of studying spatial income inequality is analysis of beta-convergence (i.e. an inverse … growth theory predicts income convergence among economies (countries or regions within a country), and that beta-convergence …

The objective of the paper is to analyse the nominal and real convergence process in Estonia drawing on the Balassa …

How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …