Testing for convergence: evidence from non-parametric multimodality tests

Settler-Colonialism and the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle

“…Marilyn Grell-Brisk (2017 empirically demonstrates the persistence of the tripartite distribution in the world-system or to say it differently, the tendency for clustering or formation of "convergence clubs" in the distribution of global wealth. This is consistent with previous studies of global income/wealth distributions (that cut across disciplines and methodological approaches) by Arrighi and Drangel (1986), Bianchi (1997), Babones (2005), Henderson et al (2008), Pittau et al (2010), Grell-Brisk (2017), and Karatasli (2017. More importantly, the scholars all found persistent gaps between the core-semiperiphery-periphery that could be interpreted as pseudo-boundaries between coresemiperiphery-periphery zones.…”

Settler-Colonialism and the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle

“…Marilyn Grell-Brisk (2017 empirically demonstrates the persistence of the tripartite distribution in the world-system or to say it differently, the tendency for clustering or formation of "convergence clubs" in the distribution of global wealth. This is consistent with previous studies of global income/wealth distributions (that cut across disciplines and methodological approaches) by Arrighi and Drangel (1986), Bianchi (1997), Babones (2005), Henderson et al (2008), Pittau et al (2010), Grell-Brisk (2017), and Karatasli (2017. More importantly, the scholars all found persistent gaps between the core-semiperiphery-periphery that could be interpreted as pseudo-boundaries between coresemiperiphery-periphery zones.…”

Visualizing Convergence Dynamics across Regions and States: h-Convergence

“…By contrast, in the period from 1964 to 1975 the evidence is against the CCH. This is consistent with the evidence provided by Bianchi (1997) [12] that fails to reject unimodality throughout the 1970s.…”

The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence: A New Look at Distributional Changes in The Wealth of Nations

“…Throughout the years there is a big mode of relatively poor countries and a smaller one of richer countries close to two standard deviations above the mean. This persistent bimodality is in line with the literature (Bianchi, ; Beaudry et al , ; Anderson et al , ) and easily confirmed by Silverman's multimodality test in every year. The dashed lines in Figure show that p ‐values of Silverman's classical unimodality test with 5000 bootstrap replications are always clearly below 5% from 1984 onwards.…”

Settler-Colonialism and the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle

“…Marilyn Grell-Brisk (2017 empirically demonstrates the persistence of the tripartite distribution in the world-system or to say it differently, the tendency for clustering or formation of "convergence clubs" in the distribution of global wealth. This is consistent with previous studies of global income/wealth distributions (that cut across disciplines and methodological approaches) by Arrighi and Drangel (1986), Bianchi (1997), Babones (2005), Henderson et al (2008), Pittau et al (2010), Grell-Brisk (2017), and Karatasli (2017. More importantly, the scholars all found persistent gaps between the core-semiperiphery-periphery that could be interpreted as pseudo-boundaries between coresemiperiphery-periphery zones.…”

Visualizing Convergence Dynamics across Regions and States: h-Convergence

“…By contrast, in the period from 1964 to 1975 the evidence is against the CCH. This is consistent with the evidence provided by Bianchi (1997) [12] that fails to reject unimodality throughout the 1970s.…”

The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence: A New Look at Distributional Changes in The Wealth of Nations

“…Throughout the years there is a big mode of relatively poor countries and a smaller one of richer countries close to two standard deviations above the mean. This persistent bimodality is in line with the literature (Bianchi, ; Beaudry et al , ; Anderson et al , ) and easily confirmed by Silverman's multimodality test in every year. The dashed lines in Figure show that p ‐values of Silverman's classical unimodality test with 5000 bootstrap replications are always clearly below 5% from 1984 onwards.…”

Settler-Colonialism and the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle

“…Marilyn Grell-Brisk (2017 empirically demonstrates the persistence of the tripartite distribution in the world-system or to say it differently, the tendency for clustering or formation of "convergence clubs" in the distribution of global wealth. This is consistent with previous studies of global income/wealth distributions (that cut across disciplines and methodological approaches) by Arrighi and Drangel (1986), Bianchi (1997), Babones (2005), Henderson et al (2008), Pittau et al (2010), Grell-Brisk (2017), and Karatasli (2017. More importantly, the scholars all found persistent gaps between the core-semiperiphery-periphery that could be interpreted as pseudo-boundaries between coresemiperiphery-periphery zones.…”

Visualizing Convergence Dynamics across Regions and States: h-Convergence

“…By contrast, in the period from 1964 to 1975 the evidence is against the CCH. This is consistent with the evidence provided by Bianchi (1997) [12] that fails to reject unimodality throughout the 1970s.…”

The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence: A New Look at Distributional Changes in The Wealth of Nations

“…Throughout the years there is a big mode of relatively poor countries and a smaller one of richer countries close to two standard deviations above the mean. This persistent bimodality is in line with the literature (Bianchi, ; Beaudry et al , ; Anderson et al , ) and easily confirmed by Silverman's multimodality test in every year. The dashed lines in Figure show that p ‐values of Silverman's classical unimodality test with 5000 bootstrap replications are always clearly below 5% from 1984 onwards.…”