Large Mining Enterprises and Regional Development: Between the Enclave and Cluster

Andres Vallone () and Miguel Atienza ()
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Andres Vallone: IDEAR - Department of Economics, Universidad Católica del Norte - Chile
Miguel Atienza: IDEAR - Department of Economics, Universidad Católica del Norte - Chile

No 17, Documentos de Trabajo en Economia y Ciencia Regional from Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile, Department of Economics

Abstract: Over the last century, Chile has experienced a demographic and economic transformation that has shaped its economic geography. This article examines the evolution of the chilean urban system between 1885 and 2002. We estimate changes in the Zipf coefficient and the stability of the hierarchy of urban centers based on information from the Population and Housing Censuses. The results show a marked trend towards the formation of an increasingly asymmetrical system of cities that does not satisfy Zipf's law in the last two decades. At the same time, the hierarchy of cities has tended to be more stable, with a clear dominance of large cities that existed at the end of the nineteenth century and an increasing reduction in the variability among low-ranking cities.

Keywords: Zipf law; urban economics; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2012-03, Revised 2012-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-his and nep-ure
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