Regional differentials in per capita income and labour productivity in Italy is one of the most notable cases of regional inequality and have attracted attention from economists from all over the world since the 1950s. In this paper we first aim at yielding a comprehensive description of the pattern of regional inequality in Italy on the basis of a new dataset on the main regional variables for...

Econometric analysis of convergence processes across countries or regions usually refers to a transition period between an arbitrary chosen starting year and a fictitious steady state. Panel unit root tests and panel cointegration techniques have proved to belong to powerful econometric tools if the conditions are met. When referring to economically defined regions, though, it is rather an exce...

We show that any homomorphism from the homeomorphism group of a compact 2-manifold, with the compact-open topology, or equivalently, with the topology of uniform convergence, into a separable topological group is automatically continuous.

This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the existence of decreasing aggregate returns to education that have limited the extension of compulsory s...

following collapse of the soviet :union:, regional integration has been regarded as one of the requirements that need to be met by various regions wishing to be a part of globalization process. the eco region, particularly countries in central asia and the caucasus are not an exception. nevertheless, this region has been faced with some integration challenges. employing an analytical-descriptiv...

Dedicated to R. T. Rockafellar on his 60th Birthday In a Banach space X, we introduce a criterion for comparing the Wijsman topologies that are induced by two equivalent norms of X on the hyperspace of closed convex sets C(X). Thereafter, we study the duality map associated with the unit ball of a given norm of X in relation to its composition with the polarity map. This more geometrical descri...

The classical Stone-Weierstrass theorem claims that the algebra of all real polynomials on a finite-dimensional real Banach space X is dense, in the topology of uniform convergence on bounded sets (we will always consider this topology, unless otherwise stated), in the space of continuous real functions on X. On the other hand ([12]), on every infinite-dimensional Banach space X there exists a ...

1. Introduction. Let (R") is the algebra Q1(Rn) of all real-valued functions of class C1. In other words, for every fEG1(Rn) there is a sequence {pn} of polynomials such that pn—*/ uniformly o...