Going Clubbing in the Eighties: Convergence in Manufacturing Sectors at a Glance

Silvia Dal Bianco
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Silvia Dal Bianco: Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Pavia

No 135, Quaderni di Dipartimento from University of Pavia, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods

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.

Keywords: Italian Regions; Neoclassical and Technological Convergence; Distribution Dynamics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 O33 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2010-12
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