A case study on data from the China family panel studies: the impact of Internet use on informal employment

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the impact of Internet use on informal employment, and the study found that Internet use can reduce the probability of labourers choosing informal employment. Such an impact is heterogeneous for different groups of labourers, especially significant for the group of labourers from rural regions aged between 21 to 30 years old with a bachelor’s degree or above.

KEYWORDS:

• Internet use
• informal employment
• heterogeneity
• China

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• E24
• J21
• J81

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ http://www.isss.pku.edu.cn/cfps.