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...

Les fondements économiques de la concentration spatiale des activités en ville reposent, en partie, sur l'hypothèse de l'existence d'un gain de productivité lié à la plus grande possibilité d'échanges d'informations pertinentes en face-à-face, sans surcoût (en particulier de...

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...