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. Our paper aims to fill this gap. We focus on Indonesia and m...

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Main Authors:	Bosker, Maarten, Park, Jane, Roberts, Mark
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	METRO AREAS URBANIZATION AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBAN DEFINITIONS URBAN LANDSCAPE LABOR FORCE WAGE PREMIUM
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121821569512965544/Definition-Matters-Metropolitan-Areas-and-Agglomeration-Economies-in-a-Large-Developing-Country http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32457

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spelling	okr-10986-324572021-05-25T10:54:44Z Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country Bosker, Maarten Park, Jane Roberts, Mark METRO AREAS URBANIZATION AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBAN DEFINITIONS URBAN LANDSCAPE LABOR FORCE WAGE PREMIUM 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. Our paper aims to fill this gap. We focus on Indonesia and make 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. We find 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, we show that the estimated size of the agglomeration wage premium depends nontrivially on the approach used to define metropolitan areas. 2019-09-26T19:50:57Z 2019-09-26T19:50:57Z 2019-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121821569512965544/Definition-Matters-Metropolitan-Areas-and-Agglomeration-Economies-in-a-Large-Developing-Country http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32457 English Background Paper for Time to ACT; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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spellingShingle	METRO AREAS URBANIZATION AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES URBAN DEFINITIONS URBAN LANDSCAPE LABOR FORCE WAGE PREMIUM 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. Our paper aims to fill this gap. We focus on Indonesia and make 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. We find 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, we show 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	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121821569512965544/Definition-Matters-Metropolitan-Areas-and-Agglomeration-Economies-in-a-Large-Developing-Country http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32457
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Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country

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