This is an empirical study of the real income convergence among the fifteen European Union members and the eleven … transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Debates and research on EU enlargement tends to concentrate on normative …-section regression and dynamic panel data estimations. Most estimation methods find positive convergence, but estimated rates of …

delayed positive impact of EU enlargement leading to decreasing longevity disadvantage. The convergence process after 2004 was …The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 and EU enlargement in 2004 are two major political events in the recent history of … article attempts to identify the vanguards and laggards in the health convergence process before and after the 2004 EU …

this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined … whether departures from the frontier - country-level inefficiencies - exhibit long-run relationships and convergence. The … studies have found not to display convergence, shows signs of catch-up. …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

the Europe 2020 Strategy. As provided in the Convergence Programme 2014-2020, this objective entails a series of steps … are calculated, using linear and quadratic functions, the Gross Domestic Product GDP trends, and, with the convergence …

national economies, thus entailing some convergence. The early pandemic has been followed by intentions to digitalize, which … digitalization as a global phenomenon and the pandemic as an external enabler that has promoted catching up and convergence in …

-- EU ; CIS ; development gap ; GDP ; convergence ; quality of life ; human capital ; innovation ; environment …