Mobiles and migration: global data on immigrant population and mobile subscriptions

作者: Melissa Loudon

DOI: 10.1145/2517899.2517917

关键词: Demographic economicsRegression analysisImmigrant populationLabor mobilityImmigrationQuantitative analysis (finance)BusinessAdvertisingPopulation

摘要: Expanding on recent findings mobile phones as enablers of domestic labor mobility, this paper considers the relationship between immigrant population and cellular subscriptions. Regression analysis shows that proportion a country's significantly predicts subscriptions per 100 people, controlling for GDP (p

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