Abstract

DURANTON, Gilles. A Proposal to Delineate Metropolitan Areas in Colombia. Desarro. soc. [online]. 2015, n.75, pp.223-264. ISSN 0120-3584.  https://doi.org/10.13043/DYS.75.6.

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.

Keywords : Delineation of metropolitan areas; municipal aggregation; Colombian cities; Zipf's Law.

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