and sufficient condition for convergence to consensus and characterize outcomes where the society ends up polarized. Our … some extend. We provide an analysis of the speed of convergence and the possible outcomes of the process. Furthermore, we …

patterns of convergence and divergence of European minimum income schemes in the period 1992/2001-2012. We expand on previous … studies on convergence of social assistance schemes in at least three ways. First, this paper provides a recent and detailed … contextualize our findings with regard to convergence and to clarify the underlying policy measures. Finally this paper covers a …

measured with national poverty lines, the crisis seems to have halted, but not (yet) substantially reversed the convergence …

large increases in minimum income benefits has been pursued, leading to a remarkable convergence of relative benefit levels. …

convergence, especially among EU countries. Besides, we observe that high ‘benefit decommodification’ is consistent with high ‘in …

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … factors are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …

inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models …. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …