Theil’s inequality index is used to measure convergence in 14 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development … the 14 OECD countries. However, the inequality in per capita government expenditure has no effect on the G-7 equilibrium …

We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that …

This paper analyzes the issue of convergence in OECD countries and tries to assess the effect of financial crisis on … the process of convergence. In other words it will consider whether the global financial crisis pulled the economies of … the convergence process as the Great Depression had 80 years ago. It will analyze the most important macroeconomic data …