Impact of broadband quality on median income and unemployment: Evidence from Sweden
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

Based on a unique and exhaustive database, including micro-level pooled cross-sectional data on 23 million observations over nine years, from 2009 to 2017, we assess whether broadband quality is correlated with income and unemployment reduction. Overall, the results do not tend to show any significant effect of download speed on either income or the unemployment rate. However, after distinguishing between educational attainment and city size, we obtained heterogeneous results. While we the results suggest a substitution effect between high-skilled workers and broadband in small and medium cities, we also show that broadband quality is positively correlated with unemployment reduction for low-skilled workers in small cities with broadband over 100 Mbit/s. However, the economic significance of the effect is rather low.

Income

Broadband quality

Unemployment

Fibre

Artificial intelligence

Författare

Maude Hasbi

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Science, Technology and Society

Erik Bohlin

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Science, Technology and Society

Telematics and Informatics

0736-5853 (ISSN)

Vol. 66 101732

Ämneskategorier

Nationalekonomi

Tillämpad psykologi

Miljömedicin och yrkesmedicin

DOI

10.1016/j.tele.2021.101732

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2021-11-23