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Replication Data for: The ties that bind: The role of migrants in the uneven geography of international telephone traffic (with Richard Perkins), Global Networks,13 (1), 2013, pp. 79-100

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Title Replication Data for: The ties that bind: The role of migrants in the uneven geography of international telephone traffic (with Richard Perkins), Global Networks,13 (1), 2013, pp. 79-100
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8WPGJI
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recent work suggests that migrants have been a major driving force in the
dramatic growth of international telephony over recent decades, accounting for large
rises in telephone calls between countries with strong immigrant/emigrant connections.
Yet, the existing literature has done a poor job of evaluating the substantive
importance of migrants in explaining large disparities in levels of bilateral voice
traffic observed between different countries. It has also failed to go very far in examining
how domestic and relational factors moderate (namely amplify or attenuate) the
influence of migrant stocks on international calling. Our contribution addresses these
gaps in the literature. For a sample, which includes a far larger number of countries
than previous studies, we show that, together with shorter-term visitors, bilateral
migrant stocks emerge as the relational variable with one of the substantively largest
influences over cross-national patterns of telephone calls. We also find that the effect
of bilateral migrant stocks on inter-country telephone traffic is greater where the
country pairs are richer and more spatially distant from one another.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric