This paper examines the effects of growth in African American population, employment, and human capital on growth in per capita income at the census block group (CBG) level using ordinary least square and spatial regression models, The results indicate the presence of conditional income convergence between 1980 and 2000 with poorer CBGs growing faster than the wealthier CBGs, The results also s...

The literature on income disparities across China’s provinces suggests that there has been (absolute) divergence in per capita incomes since 1978, a trend which has accelerated since the early 1990s. We contribute to this literature by updating the convergence analyses to include the most recent period (1994-2003). Four methods (beta and sigma convergence, Markov chain and kernel density analys...

abstract this paper attempts to re-investigate the catching-up (stochastic convergence) hypothesis among the selected 16 oecd countries applying the time series approach of convergence hypothesis with annual data over one century. to reach this aim, we propose a model which specifies a trend function, incorporating both types of structural breaks – that is, sharp breaks and smooth shifts using ...

This paper explores the variation in inequality as a measure of convergence or divergence per capita income. It is proposed to decompose this into different selected categories foreign trade, especially due technological intensity and intraregional interregional trade. The first category selection helps understand how stages development trade are associated with income between nations. second p...