Correlates of ICTS and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Keywords
ICTs; Mobile Phones; Intensity of Mobile Use; Internet; Employment; Self Employment; Rural; Urban;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- N77 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Africa; Oceania
- O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ICT-2018-07-09 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-KNM-2018-07-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-PAY-2018-07-09 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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