current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …, well-being and fiscal capacity, and to analyze trends toward or away from convergence for these economic variables. This …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … transfers to poor households, seem to have played an important role in driving these results by bolstering income growth among …

based on the expenditure of households, compared to the most common approach that uses income as a referent variable. It …

Beta-convergence is determined by the sign of the slope of the income growth line. The conclusion of significance …, hence convergence or divergence, is affected by the temporal choice. Changes in the starting and ending periods influence … the conclusion of convergence, lack of significance, or divergence. The customary t-test for significance of slope is …

paper Pierre Fortin discusses trends in Quebec’s real domestic income relative to that in Ontario over the last half …-century. He finds that per capita real domestic income in Quebec, as a percentage of that in Ontario, fell from 78 per cent in … development Fortin seeks to explain is the 12 percentage point increase in Quebec’s per capita real domestic income from 74 per …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

This paper revisits the issue of income convergence by examining the question of whether poorer census block groups … conditional convergence hypothesis and explain roughly 60 percent of the variation in income growth. Income growth was positively …

We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of … extremely flexible on order to model a large number of transition paths to convergence. We find regional clusters in consumer … price level data. GDP deflator data and unit labor cost data are far less clustered than CPI data. Income per capita data …

We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of … extremely flexible on order to model a large number of transition paths to convergence. We find regional clusters in consumer … price level data. GDP deflator data and unit labor cost data are far less clustered than CPI data. Income per capita data …