This study investigates the existence of regional convergence of per capita outputs in China from 1952 …’s provincial real per capita outputs to examine the regional convergence in China. To obtain the p-values of unit root tests for … Carlo simulation. The results obtained from this study reveal that the convergence of the provincial per capita outputs …

This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the … distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R …&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm …

Kaldor’s stylized facts, as well as the process of Spain’s convergence towards the most developed countries. We analyze … United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …

for improved productivity performance in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) at the macro and industry level …

FDI. In the second “expansionary” phase the sustained convergence has to rely more on productivity growth in sectors that …This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although …

wage convergence, defined this way, has no theoretical underpinnings. According to the experience of less developed EU … members that joined the union in the 1970s and 1980s, the so called cohesion countries, even after accession, wage convergence … competitiveness of Hungarian products. The article draws up possible convergence scenarios for the Hungarian wages. It turns out that …

This paper investigates the presence of stochastic and dynamic convergence of the 14 regional economies in the … convergence, which indicates convergence of regions in the long-run, is tested using Levin, Lin & Chu (LLC) and Im, Pesaran & Shin … (IPS) panel unit root tests. The presence of convergence, on one hand, indicates that the economically laggard regions are …