other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to …, this paper documents the performance of Swedish large regions (TL2) on the main productivity drivers identified by the … high regional productivity, namely rail and road connectivity, knowledge-intensive employment and research and education …

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese …

apply. Rich regions grew faster than poor ones. The convergence of labour productivity did not apply either. The divergence … of the K/L relation determined the divergence of labour productivity in the analyzed period. In the last part of the …