The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny and Jens Suedekum

No 9020, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

Keywords: urban systems; city size distributions; Zipf's law; functional urban areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2015-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-geo
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13

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