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 …

experiencing net immigration, while lagging regions experience higher speeds of income convergence. As a result, migration … increases sigma-convergence. Results show an increase of more than one third. Free movement of persons also proves to increase … efficiency, displayed by higher average convergence speeds. …

convergence across Turkish provinces. According to our results, contrary to the predictions of the standard neoclassical theory …, for 1975-2000,internal migration is not conducive to faster convergence across provinces in Turkey. One probable reason is … convergence in per capita income. …

with the World Bank’s Global Bilateral Migration Database. Overall, our results suggest little evidence that natural …