Delineating Metropolitan Areas: Measuring Spatial Labour Market Networks Through Commuting Patterns

Gilles Duranton

Chapter 6 in The Economics of Interfirm Networks, 2015, pp 107-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter first discusses the necessity of defining metropolitan areas and current practice in several countries. It argues for the use of a simple algorithm that exploits cross-municipality commuting patterns. Municipalities are aggregated iteratively provided they send a share of their commuters above a given threshold to the rest of a metropolitan area. This algorithm is implemented on Colombian data and its robustness is assessed. Finally, the properties of the resulting spatial labour market networks are explored.

Keywords: Metropolitan area definition; Municipal aggregation; Colombian cities; Zipf’s law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55390-8_6

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