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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous … Panel Survey, the paper examines the impact of Internet job search by the unemployed on their employment prospects. It also … examines the impact of Internet job search by employed job seekers on their wage growth, as well as the impact of …
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and 2016 to identify the effect of internet adoption on labor force participation. Using panel data at the individual … level with rich information on labor market outcomes, internet use and gender-biased social norms, the article finds that … internet adoption increases female labor force participation but has no effect on male labor force participation. The increase …
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This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … assumption that the share of schools that have Internet access in each municipality reflects the general accessibility of …
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between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. The paper evaluates whether sectors that …
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The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the … impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on … international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when Internet adoption increases in the exporter than importer. A 10 …
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the environment and cause significant health problems, such as cancer. This paper reports on how Internet adoption affects … paper consumption. The study used country-level panel data on Internet penetration and paper consumption disaggregated into … various paper categories. The empirical strategy is to use fixed-effect models to study whether countries with faster Internet …
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Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, internet kiosks and warehouses were established that provide wholesale price …
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This paper studies the relationship between information and communication technology, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia. It estimates total factor productivity for the Colombian manufacturing sector using a method that assumes a law of motion where total factor productivity...
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This paper uses the dramatic expansion of access to the Internet in China to analyze the impact of the Internet on firm … performance. The paper combines firm-level production data with province-level information on Internet penetration to examine how … the rollout of the Internet across Chinese provinces between 1999 and 2007 influenced firms' export behavior. The …
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