Mobiles and mobility: The Effect of Mobile Phones on Migration in Niger
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JEL classification:
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2011-07-27 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-07-27 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2011-07-27 (Economics of Human Migration)
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