employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and … national employment. Only in 11 of the 32 states we find that fluctuations in state employment are highly synchronized between …

-central and the central regions of the country. On the contrary, in states where the degree of co-movement between state and …We estimate the degree of co-movement and cyclical synchronization of formal employment across Mexican states. As a … Seguro Social (IMSS) in each state between July 1997 and December 2011. We find that Mexican states are highly heterogeneous …

employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and … national employment. Only in 11 of the 32 states we find that fluctuations in state employment are highly synchronized between …

of information across twenty major states to analyze the process and speed of convergence by focusing on major … the possible central and state level policy strategy to shorten the duration of convergence. …

India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub … distribution. The first interesting finding is that even as per capita income is not converging across India’s states, per capita … services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …

variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper it is … Indian states, using the robustness approach originally proposed by Sali-i-Martin (1997). [ICRIER Working Paper 261]. URL …