Market Access Approach to Urban Growth

This paper studies urban growth in Korean cities. First, I document that population growth patterns change over time and that the current population distribution supports random urban growth. I confirm two empirical laws—Zipf’s law and Gibrat’s law—both of which hold in the period of 1995-2015, but...

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Main Author: MOON, YOON SANG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Development Institute 2020-08-01
Series:KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.23895/kdijep.2020.42.3.1