government, and including a combined sector of totals. The results indicate that none of the sectors exhibits ó-convergence, but … they all show strong evidence of â-convergence with a convergence club pattern that is apparent for the wholesale …

proposed modeling framework is then used to identify convergence clubs in the context of U.S. county-level economic growth over …

measure is converging among the countries, by employing cross-sectional tests for absolute and conditional β-convergence as … well as for club convergence. Results suggest that despite the fact that the CEE and MENA countries exhibit a high rate of … productivity growth after the 1990s, absolute convergence cannot be accepted. Still, evidence for conditional convergence is found …