Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological … leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th century? To …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … capital accumulation and TFP growth reflect convergence along two margins. One margin (between industry) is a massive …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

international convergence of technical progress. Several models of convergence, including a model in which convergence is affected … which convergence depends on some key measurement issues, including the use of purchasing power parities to compare real …. The results show significant evidence of international convergence in the rates of growth of labour efficiency, and some …

things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … who gains and who loses from convergence since the answers may help determine whether pro-globalization or anti … century epochs were ones of overall fast growth and convergence: poor countries tended to grow even faster than rich and the …

explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was …