Zipf and the size distribution of firms

Based on a sample of 50441 independent UK companies of all sizes covering all sectors of the UK economy, the size distribution of companies is close to lognormal, even though the hypothesis of lognormality can be rejected statistically. A Zipf plot shows that the Pareto distribution is a poor fit to the upper 5% tail.

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Year of publication:	1997
Authors:	Hart, Peter ; Oulton, Nicholas
Published in:	Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 4.1997, 4, p. 205-206
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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