proposed modeling framework is then used to identify convergence clubs in the context of U.S. county-level economic growth over …

growth and convergence from a time series perspective focusing on regional labor markets. The second paper uses microdata to … evaluate what is termed conditional sigma convergence. Finally, the third paper uses innovations, as proxied by patents, and … “Stochastic Convergence and Regional Disparities: An Application to Urban Wages in Colombia” develops a model for real wages in …

Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU) since the … the coefficient of variation. The results show little evidence of price convergence for non-residential construction for … either country group. This is shown to be in contrast with convergence that is evident in the prices of other product groups …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … support output convergence and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature might be spurious. However …

The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing … convergence inEurope that cannot be adequately captured by the non-spatial growth regression models thathave dominated the … research and policy debate in this field. Evidence for convergence andspatial dependence emerges especially when estimations …

, 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. …