148839 20250122151649.0 doi 10.1007/s12076-022-00309-5 sideral 129669 ART-2022-129669 eng Puente Ajovín, Miguel Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9728-668X The distribution of urban population and economic activity in the European Union and the United States 2022 This letter compares the distribution of urban population and economic activity in the European Union and the United States. Economic activity, proxied with nighttime lights, is more unevenly distributed than population, especially in the European Union. This reflects that more population does not necessarily imply a higher level of economic activity. Both Zipf’s law and a Pareto distribution are rejected for aggregate nighttime lights within urban extents. Therefore, alternative specifications are required for the distribution of city sizes in terms of economic activity. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S39-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-112773GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ-2020-SOC-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 0.34 2022 Demography 2022 Q2 Urban Studies 2022 Q2 Geography, Planning and Development 2022 Q2 Economics and Econometrics 2022 Q3 1.7 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Sanso Navarro, Marcos Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5926-2166 Vera Cabello, María (orcid)0000-0001-8973-6804 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 15 (2022), 517–522 Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 1864-4031 305152 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148839/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 978425 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148839/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:148839 articulos driver 2025-01-22-14:46:16 ARTICLE