inequality in Italy: convergence in value added per capita is tested in light of the neoclassical exogenous growth approach …

The paper interprets the growth and convergence experience of three Central-Eastern European economies (the Czech …

Most studies of comparative productivities fail to find evidence of convergence in OECD manufacturing despite major … economic growth theories predicting convergence. Using manufacturing data for 19 OECD countries over the period from 1870 to … 2006 this study finds strong evidence of unconditional B-convergence as well as o-convergence. Panel data estimates suggest …

, together with knowledge spillovers through the channel of imports, has contributed significantly to TFP growth and σ-convergence …

inequality in Italy.  More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy's regions is tested (through both …

inequality in Italy. More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy’s regions is tested (through both …

of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

previous estimates. Further, this new evidence is used to analyze the evolution of regional inequality and convergence in the … feature in the regional distribution of output. Therefore, in the long run no evidence of regional convergence in the Spanish …

international debate on regional convergence, where it stands out for the long run persistence of its disparities. …

Development Index trend and convergence across countries is tested for by the conventional cross-country methods of ?- and … ?-convergence. We perform similar analyses on those countries that joined the European Union before its 2004 enlargement and on all … current members of the EU too. Our results indicate convergence for all three groups of countries we consider, that is …