convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This …. Comparing our results to the results of previous research the process of interregional convergence in Russia can be seen. In the …

that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …

A switching regression approach with imperfect sample separation information is used to determine convergence clubs …. Regime classification allows one to determine which countries belong to the related convergence clubs. Initial per capita GDP …

matter: divergence or convergence of tastes. Based on a sample of 622 popular films released between 2005 and 2009 in France … media critics) builds an artificial form of convergence which can be useful for the market’s actors. …

issue of disparities and convergence in levels of living within regions and cities of the Russian Federation (the RF) in the … classification of RF regions and cities and evaluation of disparities and convergence tendencies of levels of living. The analysis of … dynamics of the synthetic indicators of level of living provides evidence for regional convergence of levels of living and a …

Wage Convergence of Agricultural Workers of Brazil 1992 - 2009 The aim of this study is to examine differences of wages … indication of the spatial error model for beta absolute convergence of temporary workers. Thus it was chose the most appropriate … conditional of wages of permanent workers and the spatial error model was appropriated to beta conditional convergence of wages of …