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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Korea Development Institute
2020-08-01
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Series: | KDI Journal of Economic Policy |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.23895/kdijep.2020.42.3.1 |