Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study convergence and income mobility of China’s rural households. Design/methodology/approach The data of rural household income per capita are employed to compute the transitional dynamics in the rural sector. The analyses are conducted at two spatial...

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has beenachieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distributionof GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures.While in the first year after unification, the two...

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has been achieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distribution of GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures. While in the first year after unification, the two...