On the Size Distribution of Cities: An Economic Interpretation of the Pareto Coefficient

S H Suh
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S H Suh: Department of Economics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Environment and Planning A, 1987, vol. 19, issue 6, 749-762

Abstract: Both the hierarchy and the stochastic models of size distribution of cities are analyzed in order to explain the Pareto coefficient by economic variables. In hierarchy models, it is found that the rate of variation in the productivity of cities and that in the probability of emergence of cities can explain the Pareto coefficient. In stochastic models, the productivity of cities is found to explain the Pareto coefficient. New city-size distribution functions, in which the Pareto coefficient is decomposed by economic variables, are estimated.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1068/a190749

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