Abstract
This paper attempts to analyze the determinants of the wireless Internet consumption expenditure(WICE) using data from a survey of 819 individual living in 6 large cities including Seoul. Only 23.7% of 819 sampled individuals, 194, responded that they use wireless Internet service. Therefore, this study employs the Type Ⅰ Tobit model and the Type Ⅱ Tobit model to take the non-user data into account. The estimation results of the Type Ⅰ Tobit model and the Type Ⅱ Tobit model are similar. Age, average monthly income and wireless Internet use time are the significant determinants of the WICE. Dummies for using information and entertainment contents have positive relationship with the WICE. In addition, the income and age elasticities of the WICE were estimated as 0.513 and -2.026, respectively, implying that the WICE is income-inelastic and age-elastic.
| Translated title of the contribution | Analyzing the Determinants of the Wireless Internet Consumption Expenditure |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 935-948 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | 산업경제연구 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Jun 2008 |