examine the impact of openness on growth and convergence in labor productivity in the Chinese provinces during the period 1984 … convergence in labor productivity across the Chinese provinces. As a byproduct, this study also estimates the structural …

living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …

data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 … and 2000. Convergence occurs even more quickly within groups of countries that have a higher degree of integration. A key … converging, several Latin American countries fail to converge. The patterns of convergence are consistent with dynamics of …