Mobile internet and income improvement: Evidence from Vietnam

Thi Trang Pham

Mobile internet and income improvement: Evidence from Vietnam

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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.

Original language	English
Publisher	UNU-MERIT
Publication status	Published - 23 Nov 2023

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Series	UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Number	042
ISSN	1871-9872

JEL classifications

d31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
e20 - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment: General (includes Measurement and Data)
e24 - "Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital"
j24 - "Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity"
o30 - "Technological Change; Research and Development; Intellectual Property Rights: General"
o53 - Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
r50 - Regional Government Analysis: General

Keywords

household income
jobs
wages
mobile Internet
technological change
M4D
smartphone
technology adoption
developing countries
ICT4D

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