This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …

priorities must be re-oriented towards potentially productive spending programmes. A simple economic growth model illustrates … that the current EU budget setting is, at best, neutral with respect to the EU-wide long-term growth potential and may … actually hamper growth in the majority of the EU countries if the distortionary nature of taxation is taken into account. …

convergence to market equilibrium. It is expedient that some parties have differentiable objectives or make strictly feasible …

distance. Furthermore, there is little evidence of income convergence. Using various methods and data sets, we show that many …

might be spurious. However, significant evidence of growth convergence is found, a result which is reasonably robust to the … choice of the sample period and country groupings. Non-convergence of log per capita outputs combined with growth convergence …This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …