income among Brazilian states. It also aims at ascertaining the degree to which such variables affect convergence or … to capture not only the influence of household human capital and wealth variables on the convergence of per capita income …, as these are some of the main factors behind the differences in steady-state rates of income growth in Brazil …

Income inequality is a phenomenon that occurs in different proportions in many countries of the world. In Brazil, the … investigates the hypothesis of absolute and conditional convergence of income among the Brazilian states from 1994 to 2010. The … this occurrence in the neighboring units. This results is to somewhat expected since that in Brazil there is a clear North …

The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on … income per capita and labor productivity. The remaining of the paper estimates econometric models of growth convergence for …, by enlarging the model to take account of the long run determinants of spatial growth convergence. Empirical results …

leapfrogging over richer municipalities, from 1920 to 1970. Although the coefficients confirmed a long-term convergence trend in …