This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …

percent. Average productivity growth in EMDEs has picked up rapidly since 2000, renewing interest in the convergence … rate of convergence remains low, with current growth differentials halving the productivity gap only after over 100 years …. Behind the low average pace of convergence lies considerable diversity among groups of countries converging toward different …

-run projection ; convergence ; demographic change …

the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional … convergence afterward. This paper analyzes poverty trends, poverty convergence, economic mobility, and the determinants of poverty …

. While the primary measure for convergence and catching up is per capita output, we also look at other macroeconomic … studies of convergence between regions of reunified Germany, our approach is purely based upon the time series dimension and … process. In our analysis, we find evidence of catching up for East Germany for most of the indicators. However, convergence …

migrants might either – in the case of low-skilled migration – accelerate or – in high-skilled case – impede convergence. Due … how geographic mobility affects convergence via the human capital selectivity of migration. With regard to the endogeneity … of the migration flows and human capital, we apply a dynamic panel data model within the framework of β-convergence and …