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.
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Duranton, G. (2015). Delineating metropolitan areas: Measuring spatial labour market networks through commuting patterns. In Advances in Japanese Business and Economics (Vol. 4, pp. 107–133). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55390-8_6
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