The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … barriers preventing catch-up to occur. We find the level of averagelabor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, to be …

Despite its paramount importance in the empirical growth literature, productivity convergence analysis has three … in labour productivity, but not unconditional convergence. In addition, our results show that both global and industry …