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Mobile Broadband and Job Search: An Empirical Test


George S. Ford


Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies

September 6, 2011


Abstract:     
This empirical study finds that mobile Internet use has a positive effect on Americans who sustain active job searches, cutting in half the probability that an unemployed person would become discouraged by labor market prospects and abandon efforts to find work.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 9

Keywords: Broadband, Job Search, Labor Markets, Internet, FCC, Telecommunications

JEL Classification: L96, J64

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Date posted: October 27, 2011  

Suggested Citation

Ford, George S., Mobile Broadband and Job Search: An Empirical Test (September 6, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1949891 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1949891

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George S. Ford (Contact Author)
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies ( email )
5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Suite 440
Washington, DC 20015
United States
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