We investigate whether increasing the education quality causes increases in economic growth allowing poorer countries to catch up. To this end, we extend Nelson-Phelps's classic paper by introducing differences in education quality (proxied by students' performance on the Program for...

The aim of the paper is to analyze whether there is and, possibly, how strong the gross domestic product (GDP) β-convergence is in a group that includes most postcommunist countries, which, we believe, are a relatively homogeneous group compared to all countries. We use country-level panel data...

This paper analyzes the time stability of the GDP beta convergence in two subsamples: EU27 countries during 1993–2010 and EU15 during 1972–2010. Additionally, the article checks for the strength and stability of influence of particular economic growth factors. In order to address the problem...

The study analyzes the time stability of the beta convergence coefficient for the EU28 countries over the 1992–2012 period which is divided into seventeen 5‐year overlapping subperiods. The basic convergence model is estimated with the use of GMM system estimator and a variety of control...

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the link from growth to jobs was tenuous in the first decade of the transition, giving rise to the notion of jobless growth. Yet, European countries suffered large job losses during the recent recession, suggesting that jobs and growth are closely entwined....