Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326892 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2023-042
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
Abstract: 
New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and accordingly changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile Internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, we identified significant positive effects of mobile Internet on provinces' average household income in Vietnam. The effect sizes are larger for lower-income quintiles groups and for rural areas, suggesting the more inclusive changing impact of the innovation over the last decade. Preliminary evidence of impact mechanisms via skilled employment rates and (formal) wages are also presented. The evidence from Vietnam, a lower middle-income country, can bring further understanding in the extent of development impacts of second-generation mobile for development (M4D 2.0) in particular and ICT for development (ICT4D) in general.
Subjects: 
household income
jobs
wages
mobile Internet
smartphone
technological change
technology adoption
developing countries
M4D
ICT4D
JEL: 
D31
E20
E24
J24
O30
O53
R50
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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