Abstract

ALDERETE, María Verónica. Do smart cities help to confront unemployment? A multilevel analysis. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2019, vol.34, n.1, pp.43-70. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v34i1.1751.

Changes due to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) diffusion have fostered the need to examine the relationship between ICT and unemployment. The objective of this paper is analyzing whether a higher ICT diffusion, proper of smart cities, explains a higher unemployment rate. To this end, we employ a sample of 138 cities from 64 countries. These cities are those for whom the Cities in Motion Index are published. We estimate a multilevel regression model, with two levels: city and country. Results obtained show that technology at both levels of analysis significantly explains cities unemployment rates.

Keywords : Information and Communication Technologies; cities; unemployment; multilevel model.

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