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Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …
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Accumulation of education and geographic concentration of educated people in cities are expected to generate urban income growth. New economic geography predicts income divergence across regions. We investigate the dynamic process of accumulating tertiary education and regional income growth in...
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The EU regions have been experiencing a period of unprecedented change. The ongoing (and parallel) processes of EU integration and enlargement have progressively transformed regional economies to integral parts of the emerging (European) socio-economic space, exposing them to the forces and the...
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The evaluation of regional inequalities and the monitoring of their evolution (regional convergence/divergence analysis … appraises the effectiveness of regional policy. Extending the methodology of (regional) convergence clubs, the paper examines … for the existence of convergence clubs, in per capita GDP terms, among the NUTS III regions of Greece during the period …
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