This paper tests the convergence hypothesis across the EU NUTS II regions between 1990 and 2001. It does that using the … working-age person. The results show that there is convergence of output per capita and productivity, but not of output per … working-age person. This is due to the fact that the evolution of demography plays in favour of convergence while employment …

(starting in the 50s, at the outset of industrialization) of the convergence in productivity of the Portuguese economy towards … the most developed European countries. In an econometric equation of conditional convergence over the XXth century …, openness has a positive effect in growth potential, and the rate of convergence increases with the share of investment goods in …

This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … the scale reduction. This suggests the occurrence of a distinct convergence process of the per capita GPD between the two … North and Northeast and the convergence for the rest of the country. This result shows that there is not one scale that is …

Using panel data, this paper explores the role of infrastructure and human capital in the convergence of income levels … reject the hypothesis of non-convergence in per capita incomes of UE countries, but the results do not support the hypothesis … that the speed of convergence is affected by infrastructures. …

, conditional and sigma convergence of GDP growth per capita in the farming field forthe brasilian states in the period of 1980 to … existence of sigma convergence. …