 Does Broadband Facilitate Immigration Flows?Cansu Unver () Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Birmingham Abstract: This paper investigates whether broadband facilitates migration flows from OECD to OECD countries, as well as non-OECD to OECD countries. The selection of both OECD and non-OECD origin countries are based on the magnitude of the flows, examining those with a minimum rate of 0.1 (10 per 1,000 population), followed by those with 0.3 and 0.5 (30 and 50 per 1,000). We do not consider migration flows of less than 0.1 (10 per 1,000) as it may not be possible to calculate how broadband affects this flow. We found a strong and positive effect of broadband on migration flows between 1995 and 2009. This supports the fact that broadband connections affect migration flows from source to home country by improving the flow of information about the host which affects migration decisions from the source. This effect is more prominent for non-OECD to OECD country pairs. Results improve for larger thresholds due to the fact that we believe higher frequency of moving - although capturing fewer country pairs - will produce more accurate results. Keywords: Determinant of migration; broadband penetration rate; non-linear instrumental variable; OECD and non-OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bir:birmec:15-01 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Birmingham Contact information at EDIRC. |
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