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 …

across the EU regions mostly concentrate on convergence in average per capita incomes, offering little evidence on how … to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … extent regional initial conditions and the Cohesion Policy funds affect the convergence process. Cross-section and panel …