This study analyzes convergence among regions of Turkey from an endogenous growth perspective. The results show that human capital, which is represented with R&D personnel, has a negative impact on economic in the based its percentage total employment. Moreover, we find there estimated U-shaped relationship, implies if personnel employment increases after certain level, effect tendency turn...

The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of uni ed Germany. It emphasises the role of private and public capital accumulation during the developing process. The theoretical part derives scal policy rules which establish convergence of regional output per capital and convergence of regional human wealth. To assess the speed of convergence ...

The Japanese Economic Review, 2001, 52(4):405–16. This paper investigates the effects of population growth and China’s entry into the world trading regime on the North and the South. In the absence of the terms of trade effect, population growth reduces the standard of living and causes a decline in welfare. Unilateral trade liberalisation of China will worsen the terms of trade for other count...

This paper studies the emergence of convergence clubs in the United States since the 1980s. The finite mixture normal model is used to identify the clubs based on the per capita personal income dataset for 700 U.S. labor market areas from 1969 to 2009. The results reveal that the collection of high income areas, termed the "rich places club," was formed in the 1980s, and the share of the rich p...