This paper investigates wage disparities across sub-national labour markets in Britain using anewly available microdata …

growth and major strands of the empirical literatures on R&D, productivity growth, and productivity convergence. Starting …

of (cross-country) in- come distributions. This allows convenient study of the convergence hypothesis, and reveals, where … appropriate, polarization and clumping within subgroups. The data show little cross-country convergence; in- stead, the important … features are persistence, immobility, and polariza- tion, exemplied by \convergence club" or \twin peaks" dynamics …

This paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at … the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important, suggesting the … that increased foreign presence within an industry raises the speed of convergence to the technological frontier. …