Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272891 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 1348
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
Infrastructure has always been a fundamental driver of long-term economic growth, but in recent decades information and communication technology (ICT) has supported and accelerated the growth of the global economy in ways beyond the imagining of our ancestors. This study examines the role of ICT infrastructure in facilitating labor markets access and remittance flows for workers from the Kyrgyz Republic. Using a combination of traditional high frequency macroeconomic data and real time internet search information from Google Trends, we take a novel approach to explaining the inflow of remittances to a developing country. In the first attempt to model remittance behavior with GTI data in this context, we use a gravity model. We also attempt to account for both origin and destination labor market conditions, using Kyrgyz language search words to identify both push and pull factors affecting migrant decisions.
Subjects: 
migration
remittances
infrastructure
internet
JEL: 
F22
F24
O18
O33
L86
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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