It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions. We estimate production functions where firms can change their … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides …

Broadband (high-speed) internet access expanded rapidly from 1999 to 2007. This expansion is associated with higher … teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize … broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased …

question of the technological drivers of this phenomenon by studying the impact of the staggered diffusion of broadband … internet in France during the 2000s. Our results confirm that broadband technology increases firm productivity and the relative … demand for high-skill workers. Further, we show that broadband internet led firms to outsource some non-core occupations to …

of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … ; taxation ; Australia ; Canada ; New Zealand ; United Kingdom ; United States …

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …