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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Main Authors:	Bosker, Maarten, Park, Jane, Roberts, Mark
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	METRO AREAS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION METROPOLITAN AREAS URBAN LANDSCAPE WAGE PREMIUM LABOR FORCE
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

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spelling	okr-10986-308472021-06-08T14:42:48Z Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country Bosker, Maarten Park, Jane Roberts, Mark METRO AREAS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION METROPOLITAN AREAS URBAN LANDSCAPE WAGE PREMIUM LABOR FORCE 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. 2018-11-12T21:29:24Z 2018-11-12T21:29:24Z 2018-11 Working Paper 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 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8641 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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topic	METRO AREAS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION METROPOLITAN AREAS URBAN LANDSCAPE WAGE PREMIUM LABOR FORCE
spellingShingle	METRO AREAS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBANIZATION METROPOLITAN AREAS URBAN LANDSCAPE WAGE PREMIUM LABOR FORCE Bosker, Maarten Park, Jane Roberts, Mark Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Bosker, Maarten Park, Jane Roberts, Mark
author_facet	Bosker, Maarten Park, Jane Roberts, Mark
author_sort	Bosker, Maarten
title	Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
title_short	Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
title_full	Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
title_fullStr	Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
title_full_unstemmed	Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
title_sort	definition matters : metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large developing country
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	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
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Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country

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