How sensitive is city size distribution to the definition of city? The case of Spain

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2020.109643MaRDI QIDQ2226871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Puente-Ajovín, Arturo Ramos, Fernando Sanz-Gracia, Daniel Arribas-Bel

Publication date 9 February 2021

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/108296

zbMATH Keywords

citiesdouble Pareto lognormallognormal distributionmixturesPareto distributionSpain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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