Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces

Type Working Paper - WIDER Working Paper
Title Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces
Author(s)
Issue 2012/84
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2012
URL http://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/81041
Abstract
Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine what it reveals about the importance of transport costs, labour market pooling, and technology transfer for agglomeration processes. We contrast this analysis with insights from existing measures in the literature and find very different underlying stories at work. An exceptionally rich set of data from Vietnam makes us confident that our measure is superior at least in developing country contexts.

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