The paper surveys the main trends of per capita income convergence in the European Union. It stresses that income … disparities have ceased to diminish across the European regions since 1980, although convergence between countries has continued … behind income convergence are analized by means of the decomposition of per capita income in labor productivity and …

Main trends of per capita income convergence in Portugal and the European Union are surveyed. An explanation is given … to the fact that in the last two decades countries have converged, while no visible convergence has taken place among the … distribution of the stock of existing firms in the European Union is fixed, it is assumed that the degree of convergence follows …

in Spain and its regions and investigates the impact of this factor on the process of regional convergence in income per …

results also point to the existence of a quite slow convergence process across EU countries during the period analysed, as …

Recent estimates of convergence equations using panel data techniques tend to produce theoretically unpalatable results … very high convergence coefficient obtained in these studies) may be partly due to the difficulty of empirically separating …

This paper surveys the recent literature on convergence across countries and regions. I discuss the main convergence … exploring the role of alternative convergence mechanisms and the possible shortcomings of panel data techniques for convergence …