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 …

driven by economic growth, convergence in energy intensity, and weak decoupling. There is no sign of strong decoupling. …

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

, convergence, and resource endowment effects are statistically significant. For sulfur emissions, the scale and convergence effects …

convergence. The industry seems to be characterized by oligopoly with the onset of economic reforms not making much difference to … industrial structure. Convergence of sales and capacity at the level of the industry is conditional while it is absolute at the …