A Proposal to Delineate Metropolitan Areas in Colombia

This paper discusses the need to delineate metropolitan areas and current practice in several countries. It argues for the use of a simple algorithm that examines cross-municipality commuting patterns. Municipalities are aggregated iteratively provided they send a share of their commuters, above a g...

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Published in:Desarrollo y sociedad 2015-01, Vol.75 (75), p.223-264
Main Author: Duranton, Gilles
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Central business districts
Colombian cities
Commuting
Delineation of metropolitan areas
ECONOMICS
Employment
Labor market
Metropolitan areas
municipal aggregation
Municipalities
Robustness
Zipf’s Law
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Summary:This paper discusses the need to delineate metropolitan areas and current practice in several countries. It argues for the use of a simple algorithm that examines 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. The algorithm is implemented on Colombian data and its robustness is assessed. Finally, the properties of the resulting spatial labor market networks are explored.
ISSN:0120-3584
1900-7760
0120-3584
DOI:10.13043/dys.75.6