The Impact of Mobile Phones on Change in Employment Status in South Africa

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Review of Network Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI:10.1515/rne-2022-0008

Lukasz Grzybowski, Zubair Maghmood Patel

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Abstract

In this paper we analyse whether having a mobile phone impacts chances of getting employed. We use five waves of panel data from the National Income Dynamic Survey (NIDS), which was conducted in South Africa between years 2008 and 2017. In the estimation we include a vector of observable individual and household characteristics and account for unobserved heterogeneity amongst individuals. The estimation results suggest that mobile phone ownership has a positive impact on the change in employment status from unemployed to employed. On the other hand, ownership of a computer by a household and computer literacy do not increase the likelihood of getting employed. The average probability of becoming employed increases from 54.2 % when no one among unemployed adults has a mobile phone to 57.4 % when all of them have a mobile phone, which is an increase of 5.9 %.

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移动电话对南非就业状况变化的影响

在本文中，我们分析了拥有手机是否会影响就业机会。我们使用了2008年至2017年在南非进行的国民收入动态调查(NIDS)的五波面板数据。在估计中，我们纳入了一个可观察到的个体和家庭特征向量，并考虑了个体之间未观察到的异质性。估计结果表明，手机拥有率对就业状态从失业到就业的变化有积极的影响。另一方面，家庭拥有计算机和计算机知识并不会增加就业的可能性。平均就业概率从没有人拥有手机时的54.2%增加到所有人都拥有手机时的57.4%，增加了5.9%。

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