Can Migrants Benefit from the Digital Economy?——Based on the Perspective of Employment Quality
High-quality employment is essential to high-quality development,and the digital economy is becoming a new engine driving high-quality employment.This article empirically verifies the impact of the digital economy on the employment quality of migrants,by employing the dataset of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)and the fixed effect model.The results illustrate that:In general,the digital economy has a significant negative impact on the employment quality of migrants in the dimensions of labor income,labor welfare,and labor intensity.Further,this paper focuses on the heterogeneous effects of the digital economy on migrants'employment quality.Based on the grouping of skills and occupational tasks,the results show that compared to high-skilled migrants,the digital economy negatively impacts the labor income and labor welfare of low-skilled migrants;compared to migrants in the non-routine task group,the digital economy significantly reduces the employment quality of migrants in various dimensions in the routine task group.In terms of migrants in different industrial sectors,the digital economy has significantly improved the labor income and labor welfare of migrants in the high-service sector.However,the labor welfare of low-end service sector migrants is relatively declining.Compared with non-poor migrants,the digital economy significantly improves the labor income of migrants from poor families but leads to a relative decline in the employment quality of labor welfare,labor intensity and employment stability dimensions.Therefore,it can be concluded that the digital economy has caused an employment shock to migrants with inferior human capital to a certain extent.If we want to give full play to the role of the digital economy in achieving high-quality employment,efforts should be made to narrow the"digital divide"between people,establish effective education and training systems,give certain policy protection to digitally vulnerable groups,and make the job dividends of the digital economy more inclusive.
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