%0 Journal Article 
%A Maroto Sánchez, Andrés
%A Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.
%T New regional convergence in productivity and productive structure : application to european southern countries
%D 2008
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6531
%X Diverse approaches have been used to analyse the hypothesis of convergence between
European regions. This paper is particularly focused on productivity trends and the effects
of changes in regional productive structures, which seems to be the main source of the
observed productivity convergence. The crucial mechanism explaining this last process
(labour apparent productivity) is the transfer of labour from the less productive activities
to the most ones, a fact that has been particularly important in the poorest regions. The
apparent exhaustion of this process runs in parallel to the progressive end of regional
convergence in income per capita. So convergence of productive structures seems to be
the factor explaining the apparent contradiction between the observed convergence of
aggregate productivity levels and the absence (or clear reduction) of productivity
convergence within the different sectors. The analysis intends to show that the
convergence process is probably exhausted through this way. The core point of the paper
is sigma convergence in GDP approach as well as the productive structure convergence.
The paper takes as a reference those regions included in five European Mediterranean
countries (Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal), but it always compare with the
aggregate behaviour in the EURO zone. Data base used come from the European Regional
database by Cambridge Econometrics, and the time period ranges from 1980 to 2006.

%K Regional convergence
%K Productivity
%K Productive Structure
%K Convergencia regional
%K Productividad
%K Estructura productiva
%K R11, R23, O40
%K Economía
%K Economics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
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