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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.57,P.581-613

语言

英文

关键字

J31;R19;R29;Human capital;Cities;Communication;Identification of externalities

作者单位

CESAER–INRA Dijon, 26 Boulevard Docteur Petitjean, BP 87999, 21079 Dijon, France"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff002;Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and CEPR, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor001;CESAER–INRA Dijon, 26 Boulevard Docteur Petitjean, BP 87999, 21079 Dijon, France"}]},"aff002":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff002;Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and CEPR, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor001":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor001

摘要

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 on wages. By estimating both an earnings and a communication equation, we find evidence of communication externalities. In larger and more educated cities, workers communicate more and in turn this has a positive effect on their wages. Depending on the estimates, we find that 13 to 22% of the effects of a more educated and larger city on wages percolate through this channel.