TY - RPRT AB - Income convergence among the G-7 countries was demonstrated using Theil's inequality (entropy) index. G-7 convergence was also found for three potential factors of influence on economic growth: government expenditure, investment expenditure, and industrial employment. Pairwise cointegration tests indicated that income inequality was cointegrated with the other three inequality measures for the time period of 1950-88. Finally, Johansen's I(2) multi-cointegration tests indicated that three of the four inequality measures (i.e. income, investment expenditure, and industrial employment) were cointegrated suggesting that there exists a long-run equilibrium between the inequality in income, investment expenditure, and industrial employment. AU - Weatherspoon, Dave D. AU - Seale, James L., Jr. AU - Moss, Charles B. DA - 1999 DA - 1999 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.11675 DO - doi ID - 11675 KW - Agricultural and Food Policy L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11675/files/sp99-65.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11675/files/sp99-65.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11675/files/sp99-65.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11675/files/sp99-65.pdf N2 - Income convergence among the G-7 countries was demonstrated using Theil's inequality (entropy) index. G-7 convergence was also found for three potential factors of influence on economic growth: government expenditure, investment expenditure, and industrial employment. Pairwise cointegration tests indicated that income inequality was cointegrated with the other three inequality measures for the time period of 1950-88. Finally, Johansen's I(2) multi-cointegration tests indicated that three of the four inequality measures (i.e. income, investment expenditure, and industrial employment) were cointegrated suggesting that there exists a long-run equilibrium between the inequality in income, investment expenditure, and industrial employment. PY - 1999 PY - 1999 T1 - CONVERGENCE OF THE G-7: A COINTEGRATION APPROACH TI - CONVERGENCE OF THE G-7: A COINTEGRATION APPROACH UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11675/files/sp99-65.pdf Y1 - 1999 T2 - Staff Paper 99-65 ER -