We use county data with 3,058 observations to study growth and convergence in the US. We assess the effect of 40 … convergence rates around 2 percent, but 3SLS yields 6–8 percent; (2) convergence rates vary across the U.S. E.g., Southern …

convergence rate across the U.S. is about 7 percent per year – higher than the 2 percent normally found with OLS in cross …-country, U.S. state, and European region samples. Estimated convergence rates for 32 individual states are above 2 percent with … an average of 8.1 percent. For 29 states the convergence rate is above 2 percent with 95 percent confidence. For seven …

becoming more or less concentrated. The existing literature has found deconcentration (convergence) of employment across urban …

This article examines regional inequalities in Greece, on the basis of $\sigma$-convergence and $\beta$-convergence …

human capital in the conditional productivity convergence in the economic sectors of NUTs III of mainland Portugal between …

of this paper is, also, to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … at regional level (from 1995 to 1999). The structural variables used in the analysis of conditional convergence is the …

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic … empirical evidence of conditional convergence of productivity, for each of the economic sectors of the NUTS II of Portugal, from …

of accessibility. In estimating regressions on conditional beta-convergence, the inclusion of national dummies shows a … reduced speed of convergence (in the total and the western sample) and even divergence in the sample of (former communist) new … convergence. The estimates indicate significant lower steady state incomes in the peripheral agrarian regions, peripheral …