Analysis of people territorial distribution in regions of the Volga Federal District on the base of Zipf and Gibrat laws

Vsevolod Andreev (), Violetta Lukiyanova () and Evgenii Kadyshev ()
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Violetta Lukiyanova: Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Russian Federation
Evgenii Kadyshev: Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Russian Federation

Applied Econometrics, 2017, vol. 48, 97-121

Abstract: Test of Gibrat and Zipf laws, performed on the base of All-Russian Population Census of 2010 data, have shown that in the Volga Federal District regions the people territorial distribution does not conform to these laws. In all regions significant distortion in people territorial distribution is observed and a significant part of them lives in capitals, and also the half of regions population lives in several large cities (from 1 to 10). At the same time, there is no significant people movement from one region to another.

Keywords: Gibrats law; Zipfs law; population migration; moving factors of population mobility; imbalance of people territorial distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 J60 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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