I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 developed and developing countries, in different manufacturing sub-sectors, identified, as according their technological content into Resource Based, Low Technology, Medium...

This paper carries out an explanatory investigation into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. We construct a three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities depending on social and institutional...