Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-548-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2012/84

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: industry agglomeration ; technology spillovers ; labour market pooling ; Vietnam ; Industrie ; Regionales Cluster ; Technologietransfer ; Spillover-Effekt ; Entwicklungsländer

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Howard, Emma ; Newman, Carol ; Tarp, Finn
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81041
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET