The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … correlated with the extent of convergence. …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …

affect the process of convergence. Most of the existing studies on convergence have ignored the role of structural change … productivity convergence and its speed at the country, region and industry levels simultaneously. The results show that conditional … convergence exists at country, regional and industry levels. However, speed of convergence is different across different …

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …