Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
A variety of approaches to delineate metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic comparisons of these approaches in terms of the urban landscape that they generate are however few. This paper aims to fill this gap. The paper focuses on Indon...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/312261541616447732/Definition-Matters-Metropolitan-Areas-and-Agglomeration-Economies-in-a-Large-Developing-Country http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30847 |
| Summary: | A variety of approaches to delineate
metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic
comparisons of these approaches in terms of the urban
landscape that they generate are however few. This paper
aims to fill this gap. The paper focuses on Indonesia and
makes use of the availability of data on commuting flows,
remotely-sensed nighttime lights, and spatially fine-grained
population, to construct metropolitan areas using the
different approaches that have been developed in the
literature. The analysis finds that the maps and
characteristics of Indonesia’s urban landscape vary
substantially, depending on the approach used. Moreover,
combining information on the metro areas generated by the
different approaches with detailed micro-data from
Indonesia's national labor force survey, the paper
shows that the estimated size of the agglomeration wage
premium depends nontrivially on the approach used to define
metropolitan areas. |
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