In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from … model to analyze regional convergence process in the Russian case. We also take into account possible spatial effects and do … a series of other robustness checks. Our main estimates establish a convergence rate of around 2% per year. While we …

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …'s poorest half doubled. Decomposition analyses emphasize the role of income convergence between poor and rich countries and that …

channels, on internal income distribution, international income convergence and on whether migration and trade are substitutes … technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …