Agglomeration boosts economic growth. A vast literature has empirically assessed the effects of agglomeration by … urbanization and agglomeration: the transition in the mode of labor from self-employment/informal jobs to wage employment …

manufacturing. A lack of agglomeration economies is one possible explanation for slow manufacturing growth and the attendant … premature deindustrialization. The paper follows Combes (2000) in examining the importance of agglomeration economies on … employment growth. Other agglomeration economies do seem to play a role, although not always in the manner anticipated …

, mostly concentrated in the vicinity of roads, and also directly on the coast. There is strong evidence of agglomeration …

detailed micro-data from Indonesia's national labor force survey, the paper shows that the estimated size of the agglomeration …