Zipf's law and world income distribution

Davide Furceri

Applied Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 15, issue 12, 921-923

Abstract: The aim of this article is to demonstrate regularity in the world income distribution. In particular, using GDP per capita data for the period 1980 to 2004, the article shows that the world income distribution follows the well know 'rank-size rule'.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850600972261

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