evolution of regional employment disparities. Therefore, this paper investigates the hypothesis of convergence for the total … paper considers different concepts of convergence. Following the cross-sectional approach to convergence provides no … evidence for a catching-up process between regions. The findings from the time series approach to convergence are mixed. The …

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …