The article measures industrial agglomeration in the Brazilian manufacturing industry in 1995 and 2001. It considers measures that were recently developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997), Maurel and Sédillot (1999) and Devereux et al. (2004) that rely in microdata and are theoretically sound. The evidence indicated that a substantial heterogeneity was present across the different sectors. Among the leaders there are sectors with very different technological content that only partially coincide with the leading sectors in France and United Kingdom. Moreover, one can observe substantial changes in the agglomeration patterns between 1995 and 2001.
industrial agglomeration; concentration
