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Does broadband infrastructure boost employment?

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  • Oliver Falck

    (Ifo Institute, Germany)

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Broadband infrastructure enables fast access to the internet, which, evidence suggests, has significant effects on economic growth. However, labor market related issues have not received as much consideration. These include quantifying employment effects of broadband infrastructure roll-out and questions about who exactly are the winners and losers in the labor market, and whether skills in information and communication technologies (ICT) are reflected in labor market outcomes such as wages. Understanding these complementary issues allows for policy conclusions that go beyond simply encouraging the subsidization of broadband internet infrastructure.

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  • Oliver Falck, 2017. "Does broadband infrastructure boost employment?," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 341-341, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izawol:journl:2017:n:341
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    Cited by:

    1. Francesco C. Billari & Osea Giuntella & Luca Stella, 2019. "Does broadband Internet affect fertility?," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 73(3), pages 297-316, September.
    2. Mossberger, Karen & LaCombe, Scott & Tolbert, Caroline J., 2022. "A new measure of digital economic activity and its impact on local opportunity," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(1).
    3. Karen Mossberger & Caroline J. Tolbert, 2021. "Digital Citizenship and Digital Communities: How Technology Matters for Individuals and Communities," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), IGI Global, vol. 10(3), pages 19-34, July.
    4. Oliver Falck, 2017. "Digitalisierung vernetzt Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 70(13), pages 52-54, July.
    5. Filippo Pusterla & Thomas Bolli, 2019. "Is Technological Change Really Skills-Biased? Firm-level Evidence of the Complementarities between ICT and Workers’ Education," KOF Working papers 19-468, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.

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    Keywords

    internet; economic growth; employment; wages; skills;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

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