The paper identifies some major disparities and quantifies some discrepancies and gaps, as well as specific trends of … context of their real convergence to the EU average level (EU-28 and EU-16). A few final remarks identify some paradoxes of …

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 …

This paper aims to shed light on the evolution of regional disparities with respect to economic activity, productivity …, showing the evolution of disparities in terms of regional GVA, labour productivity and employment, both on the between country … and within country level. We find a descending trend in disparities following each enlargement period after 2004, which …

This paper looks at the hypothesis of conditional convergence of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for a set of … eighteen Latin American countries establishing a positive link with the growth rate of those economies. To that purpose, Ø-convergence …, σ-convergence and Ú-convergence analyses are conducted. Furthermore, with the aim of identifying spatial …

Using sigma and beta convergence methods, this study tests economic convergence in Turkish NUTS-2 regions between 2004 …-2011. The findings of sigma convergence analysis show that the interregional income gap decreases during economic recession … periods and increases during economic expansion periods. The beta convergence results obtained by the cross-sectional and …

of the CEE countries and the reference emerging economies. We use two econometric methods: income-level convergence …) resulted from the mechanism of absolute convergence. There were signs, however, that the former group was subject to a … conditional beta convergence. (3) Rapid economic growth of the CEE-10 countries has been driven to a large extent by the increase …