Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128187 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 383
Publisher: 
Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the effect of the EU enlargement process on income convergence among regions in the EU and in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU. The data used is NUTS II regions in the EU and Oblasts' of Russia over the period 1996-2004. The estimation techniques used take into account both regional and spatial heterogeneity. The main findings are that the regional income differences are reduced within EU15. The income convergence within the EU is mainly driven by reductions in the differences across countries rather than by a reduction in regional differences within countries. When differences in initial conditions in the regions are controlled for by fixed regional effects there are strong evidences of convergence among regions in all studied country groups.
Subjects: 
Income convergence
European integration
Border effects
JEL: 
R11
O18
Document Type: 
Research Report

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