This paper investigates whether there is a convergence in welfare state policies among the old EU member states. To … a convergence process, driven by strong catch-up of social protection levels in the Southern member states. Furthermore …, convergence in replacement rates is substantially less pronounced than using spending data. …

The European Employment Strategy (EES) aims to promote convergence of domestic labour market policies by soft law …. Building on the most recent measures and pooled time series data, the empirical findings reveal the presence of a convergence …

issue that arose in Europe in the late 1990s: the importance of financial structure for the convergence of monetary … importance of financial structure and its impact on the convergence of the effects of monetary policy. We find convergence in … convergence of monetary transmission in Europe. …

world of increasing economic integration convergence in health care financing (HCF) and, hence, decreasing differences in … convergence we take the public financing ratio in % of total HCF and in % of GDP. The major finding is that HCF in the OECD … convergence is decreasing over time. …

and analyze the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the whole population, (ii) females, (iii) males and … (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence/Divergence is studied by applying different concepts of cross … techniques (weighted OLS, Quantile Regression, Kendall's Rank Concordance) are used to test for absolute and conditional beta-convergence …

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …

This paper deals with the development of regional income disparities and convergence processes in the countries of the … the period 1995 - 2003. We use the two classical concepts of s – and ß-convergence. Furthermore, spatial econometric …

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …

Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global … spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of …