This paper uses a unique labour force survey to document workplace communication patterns in urban, suburban and rural areas. A number of interesting stylised facts are distilled relating to workplace communication: its intensity, within-firm communication, communication external to the firm and...

To identify communication externalities in French cities, we exploit a unique survey recording workplace communication of individual workers. Our hypothesis is that in larger and/or more educated cities, workers should communicate more. In turn, more communication should have a positive effect...

To identify communication externalities in French cities, we exploit a unique survey recording workplace communication of individual workers. Our hypothesis is that in larger and/or more educated cities, workers should communicate more. In turn, more communication should have a positive effect...

In this paper we use the c.o.i. survey and the « Techniques et Organisation du Travail » (1987, 1993) surveys to document workplace communication patterns in urban, suburban and rural areas. Workers in large cities communicate more than workers in small cities and then more in small cities...

Cet article décrit les formes différenciées de communication sur le lieu de travail des salariés, en fonction de leur localisation, en mobilisant les enquêtes c.o.i. (Changement organisationnel et Informatisation, 1997) et « Techniques et Organisation du travail » (1987, 1993). Dans...

Afin d'identifier les externalités de communication dans les villes françaises, les auteurs mobilisent une enquête originale disposant de la communication des travailleurs sur leur lieu de travail. Ils supposent que les travailleurs sont à même de plus communiquer dans les villes les plus...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of fiscal cooperation on local taxation in a decentralized country, using the French experience in urban municipalities. We estimate a model of tax setting for local business tax using spatial and dynamic econometric techniques, for the...