Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95266 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni di Dipartimento No. 135
Publisher: 
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi (EPMQ), Pavia
Abstract: 
I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 developed and developing countries, in different manufacturing sub-sectors, identified, as according their technological content into Resource Based, Low Technology, Medium Technology and High Technology. I find that, exception made for High Technology and Manufacturing as a whole, all subcompartments are predicted to converge within small groups, validating the so-called club-convergence hypothesis. Thus, as high tech sectors are the ones opening the best growth-equity prospects, developing countries should target these kind of productions.
Subjects: 
Italian Regions
Neoclassical and Technological Convergence
Distribution Dynamics
JEL: 
C14
O33
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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