Health and economic convergence in the European Union (1990-2010): an econometric approach

• Autores: Laia Maynou Pujolràs
• Directores de la Tesis: Jordi Bacaria Colom (dir. tes.), Marc Sáez Zafra (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat de Girona ( España ) en 2013
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Beatriz González López-Valcárcel (presid.), M. Antònia Barceló Rado (secret.), Alistair McGuire (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Econometría
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate the reduction of economic and health disparities in the European Union from 1990-2010. Through different dynamic panel models, we show that in simple economics terms there has been a catching-up process within the eurozone and that the distance between the core-periphery has been reduced. However, in terms of disparities, significant economic differences across the eurozone regions still exist. In an attempt to go beyond economic terms, we show that the EU countries also catch-up in terms of health, while in terms of disparities there are still significant inconsistencies among the EU regions. Consequently, if the reduction of dispersion is the ultimate measure of convergence, as various authors have agreed (e.g. Quah, 1993), then our overall study shows a lack of convergence across EU regions in terms of economics and health