caa a22 4500 397572948 CHVBK 20180308164846.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199603 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013610 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013610 The productivity convergence debate: a theoretical and methodological reconsideration [Elektronische Daten] [Bruce Elmslie, William Milberg] Two fundamental issues which have been ignored in the convergence debate are addressed in this paper. First, there has been little attention paid to the development of a general model which is able to explain convergence or divergence. Second, in the rush to put data to a convergence hypothesis, researchers have failed to consider certain methodological procedures with respect to the treatment of capital. To remedy this problem we use an input-output approach to measure catch-up. To address the theoretical lacunae we present case studies of Portugal and Japan, two countries which by 1959 had attained the threshold level of development required to join the ‘convergence club', but which, for various historical (path-dependent) reasons, have diverged rapidly from each other in the period since the late 1950s. © 1996 Academic Press Limited Articles nationallicence Elmslie Bruce University of New Hampshire aut Milberg William New School for Social Research New York aut Cambridge Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 20/2(1996-03), 153-182 0309-166X 20:2<153 1996 20 cameco https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013610 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013610 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elmslie Bruce University of New Hampshire aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Milberg William New School for Social Research New York aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 20/2(1996-03), 153-182 0309-166X 20:2<153 1996 20 cameco Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford