The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic … empirical evidence of conditional convergence of productivity, for each of the economic sectors of the NUTS II of Portugal, from …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …

productivity conditional convergence in the economic sectors of NUTs III of mainland Portugal between 1995 and 2002. Taking into … account the estimation results, it is stated once again that the indications of convergence are greater in industry, and it … can be seen that spatial spillover effects, spatial lag and spatial error, do not condition the convergence of …

conditional product convergence in the parishes’ economies of mainland Portugal between 1991 and 2001 (the last year with data … indications of convergence (the population is in the littoral of Portugal) and it can be seen that spatial spillover effects … spatial autocorrelation through a spatially lagged error term) condition the convergence of product of Portuguese parishes in …

capital in the conditional productivity convergence in the economic sectors of NUTs III of mainland Portugal between 1995 and … 2002. Taking into account the estimation results, it is stated once again that the indications of convergence are greater … convergence of productivity in the various economic sectors of Portuguese region in the period under consideration. In contrast …