The Impacts of Mobile Phones and Personal Networks on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Uganda
The Impacts of Mobile Phones and Personal Networks on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Uganda
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移动电话和个人网络对农村向城市人口迁移的影响：来自乌干达的证据
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2012
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M. Muto
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M. Muto
个人关系网可以帮助农民工找到城市工作。当信息流由于移动的电话使用的扩大而增加时，新的信息流可能会加强现有类型的个人网络，如种族网络，或为那些以前在这些网络之外的人提供机会。我们研究的综合影响移动的电话使用和个人网络使用面板数据从856户94个社区在乌干达农村，其中社区的数量与移动的网络覆盖增加到87个社区之间的第一次和第二次调查，在2003年和2005年，分别在2年期间。我们发现，第一，在家庭一级拥有移动的手机增加了一个人离开他或她的农村寻找工作的机会，第二，移动的电话的使用增加了一个人将选择移徙的机会，在更大程度上属于一个较小的族裔群体的个人比一个较大的群体在首都坎帕拉。
Personal networks can help rural workers find urban jobs. When information flow increases due to the expansion of mobile phone use, the new information flow may strengthen existing types of personal network, such as ethnic networks, or provide opportunities to those who were previously outside of these networks. We examine the combined impacts of mobile phone use and personal networks by using panel data from 856 households in 94 communities in rural Uganda, where the number of communities with mobile network coverage increased from 41 to 87 communities over a 2-year period between the first and second surveys, conducted in 2003 and 2005, respectively. We find first that the possession of mobile phone handsets at the household level increases an individual’s chance of leaving his or her rural village to find a job, and second, that mobile phone use increases the chance that an individual will choose migration to a greater degree for individuals who belong to a smaller ethnic group than to a larger group in the capital city, Kampala.