This paper analyzes the relationship between human capital and convergence with a model that takes into account the … different effects of human capital accumulation on regional convergence. As an input, human capital produces convergence due to … convergence rate has been relatively small. The results indicate the potential role of educational policy in order to achieve a …

kinds of firms and, on this ground, to analyze whethercompetition leads to the homogeneization (convergence) of product …

, based on the factor productivity and efficiency measures, the study discusses the existence of technological convergence …

In models in which convergence in income levels across closed countries is driven by faster accumulation of a … productive factor in the poorer countries, opening these countries to trade can stop convergence and even cause divergence. We …. Divergence can occur for parameter values that would imply convergence in a world of closed economies and vice versa. Second …

countries involved. We contrast bargaining and perfect competition. Under perfect capital markets, convergence of capital and … convergence of the income shares, with unionized countries showing a lower wage rate and consequent capital inflows. Therefore …

variables that arehabitually considered in the analysis of inequality and convergence: per capita income and labor productivity …

-war period and the remarkable expansion ofthe stock of capital of the Sixties and the process of convergence that has taken …