Does Increment Improves Quality:The Impact of Digital Economy on the Quality of Flexible Employment
The digital economy has brought new opportunities for the development of China's job market.The emergence of new forms of employment has accelerated.Flexible employment has become one of the main choices for the labor force.Reality.Based on the characteristics of flexible employment different from formal employment,this paper uses the data of China's labor force dynamic survey to measure the quality of flexible employment exploratoryly,and examines the impact of the digital economy on the quality of flexible employment,subdivision differences and unique mechanisms.The study found that:males,rural household registration,el-derly and low-educated labor are the main sources of flexible employment,and problems such as low income,high work intensity,and job insecurity widely exist,and the quality of employment is generally low;benchmark regression found,the development of the digital economy has significantly improved the quality of flexible employment.After selecting appropriate instrumental variables to overcome endogenous problems and a series of tests,the conclusion still holds.The sub-dimensional regression found that the effect of the development of the digital economy on improving the quality of flexible employment is mainly reflected in the significant posi-tive impact of the development of the digital economy on the income of flexible employment and the degree of work freedom;The em-ployment quality improvement effect of low human capital,employee type and non-agricultural household registration flexible em-ployment is more significant;mechanism analysis shows that the development of digital economy can improve the quality of flexible employment by cultivating new forms of flexible employment and improving the digital literacy of flexible employment.The conclu-sions of this paper have important reference significance for the government to further improve the employment quality of the huge flexible employment group and achieve higher-quality development and common prosperity.
Digital EconomyFlexible EmploymentEmployment QualityNew Formats
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