The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This …. Comparing our results to the results of previous research the process of interregional convergence in Russia can be seen. In the …

issue of disparities and convergence in levels of living within regions and cities of the Russian Federation (the RF) in the … classification of RF regions and cities and evaluation of disparities and convergence tendencies of levels of living. The analysis of … dynamics of the synthetic indicators of level of living provides evidence for regional convergence of levels of living and a …

Wage Convergence of Agricultural Workers of Brazil 1992 - 2009 The aim of this study is to examine differences of wages … indication of the spatial error model for beta absolute convergence of temporary workers. Thus it was chose the most appropriate … conditional of wages of permanent workers and the spatial error model was appropriated to beta conditional convergence of wages of …