issue of disparities and convergence in levels of living within regions and cities of the Russian Federation (the RF) in the … classification of RF regions and cities and evaluation of disparities and convergence tendencies of levels of living. The analysis of … dynamics of the synthetic indicators of level of living provides evidence for regional convergence of levels of living and a …

inequality? And finally, we examine the convergence (or divergence) in terms of inequality. Analogous to the concept of (absolute …) convergence in terms of growth, a country is said to be convergent if the country has started with high (low) level of inequality …

We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence … between the nowadays industrialized countries of the OECD. We show that the dispersion of incomes increased after the …

divergence between developed and underdeveloped economies. …

Contraction & Convergence' (C&C) is a model for the future. It is based upon the view, supported by indicators such as … major disparities in natural resource consumption being removed through a process of convergence accompanying that of … contraction. However, until now expansion and divergence have characterized human use of nature throughout history: Humankind has …

Convergence in other words, with the closing of the gap between rich and poor economies, the large number of possible … rich, the poor countries are left behind. On the other hand, countries may experience a divergence in which rich countries … are richer and poor countries are poorer than convergence as a whole. All of these possibilities are related to the change …

modified Mankiw-Romer-Weil equation of the Cobb-Douglas function which takes into account the factor of convergence/divergence … people, as well as creating a large numbers of new jobs and significantly increasing productivity and wages. Our approach …

/N). Then, the Caselli-Tenreyro decomposition is used to explore whether labour-productivity convergence (or divergence) at the … the pattern of Italy's regional development until the 1970s, since then the key factor of North-South divergence has been …

. Drawing from the convergence/divergence debate in international human resource management, this study investigates and …‐Saxon, Germanic, and Japanese MNEs reveal prominent differences (divergence) at the EPM strategic level such that Japanese MNEs tend …