Arbeitspapier

Female migrants and online market participation in rural Southeast Asia

This research aimed to examine the factors affecting the participation of female ruralurban migrants in online marketplaces, the welfare gains and their distribution from the participation. Our analysis was based on the data of 373 female rural-urban migrants in Thailand and Vietnam. Online market participation is classified into three activities, financial transaction, trading, and business. We accounted for the endogeneity issue of online market participation in welfare impact assessment by using an instrumental variable approach. Our results show that the participation has a positive effect on the consumption of female migrants only when they participate in the complete bundle of online market activities. In addition, we also find that the poor benefit insignificantly from online marketplaces. This raises a concern of increasing welfare inequality and suggests that the poor should be supported in order not to be left behind.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: TVSEP Working Paper ; No. WP-026

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Subject
Impact
Welfare
Poverty
Endogenous
Heterogeneity
Instrumental variable

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Nguyen, Trung Thanh
Do, Manh Hung
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP)
(where)
Hannover
(when)
2022

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Nguyen, Trung Thanh
  • Do, Manh Hung
  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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