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Most previous research found that firm size distribution may follow a Pareto distribution of a Lognormal distribution. This paper examined the size distribution of manufacturing industrial firms in China using the firm-level data from Chinese Annual Survey of Industrial Firms database. Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for goodness of fit, we found that Pareto distribution fit well than Lognormal distribution. The Pareto shape parameter becoming larger over time. Besides, the younger, have national capital investment, export have a higher Pareto index than those older non-national capital investment and non-export, while those have FDI have a lower Pareto index than those do not have.
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Yan, Y. (2015). On Size Distribution of Manufacturing Firms in China. In: Li, M., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Shi, X. (eds) Proceedings of 2014 1st International Conference on Industrial Economics and Industrial Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44085-8_18
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