Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259355 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2006-01
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
In this paper we outline (i) why sigma-convergence may not accompany beta-convergence, (ii) discuss evidence of beta-convergence in the U.S., and (iii) use U.S. county-level data containing over 3,000 cross-sectional observations to demonstrate that sigma-convergence has not occurred at the county-level across the U.S., or within the vast majority of the individual U.S. states considered separately.
Subjects: 
Sigma Convergence
Beta Convergence
Solow Growth Model
Speed of Convergence
U.S. County-Level Data
Income Distribution
Gini Coefficient
Equality
JEL: 
O40
O11
O18
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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