IDENTIFICATION OF THE LEVEL OF INTERREGIONAL AND INTRAREGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION USING ZIPF’S RULE
A.N. FARTYSHEV
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Russia
fartyshev.an@gmail.com
Keywords: rank-size, Pareto distribution, polarization of space, regional inequality, special development, center-periphery, economic differentiation
Abstract
The method is suggested for an accurate quantitative assessment of the socio-economic spatial differentiation based on Zipf’s law. A comparative analysis is made of the demographic, social, economic, investment and budgetary differentiation at the inter regional and intraregional level (using Irkutsk oblast as an example). It is found that the demographic (estimated from the population size), economic (from the volume of shipped own-produced goods), production and investment (from the volume of fixed investments) differentiation manifests itself multiply more strongly at the intraregional level in Irkutsk oblast than between the regions of the Russian Federation. The social (estimated from the average monthly wage) and budgetary (from the actual volume of revenues and expenditures of consolidated budgets) differentiation, on the contrary, is stronger in the interregional rather than intraregional context.
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