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 …

conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …