A variety of approaches to delineating metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic comparisons these in terms the metro area landscape that they generate are however few. Our paper aims fill this gap. We focus on Indonesia and make use data commuting flows, spatially fine-grained population, remotely sensed nighttime lights construct using several developed literature. find maps characte...

From its early days, the World Wide Web space has demonstrated strong agglomeration trends with a very small number of web sites capturing the larger part of the Internet population. At a first glance, agglomeration over the virtual space sounds as a paradox. Web sites are numerous and highly diversified and can be easily reached from everywhere and anybody, with no particular transportation or...

Abstract Using a small, open, two-region economy model populated by two-period-lived overlapping generations, we analyze long-term agglomeration and congestion diseconomy effects of young worker concentration on migration the overall fertility rate. When migration-stability condition is satisfied, distribution workers between regions obtainable in each period for predetermined population size. ...

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial equilibrium. In particular, I develop a tractable general equilibrium framework of local labor markets with...

Very large urban centers are a conspicuous feature of many developing economies, yet the subject of the size distribution of cities (as opposed to such issues as rural-urban migration) has been neglected by development economists. This article argues that some important insights into urban concentration, especially the tendency of some developing countries to have very large primate cities, can...