The Impact of Smart Cities on Macro Employment Quality in the Digital Economy Era
Smart city is an important application scenario to promote the development of digital economy,and the core objectives of its construction are to promote employment,good governance and benefit the people.The article sorts out the intrinsic mechanism of the impact of smart city construction on macro employment quality at the theoretical level,and empirically tests it using a multi-temporal double difference model based on Chinese urban panel data from 2004-2019.The study finds that smart city construction significantly improves macro employment quality at the 1％level,a finding that passes a series of robustness tests.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the macro employment quality improvement effect of smart city construction is more significant in cities with high economic development level,high Internet development level,and in the eastern region.The results of the macro employment quality sub-dimension test show that smart city construction significantly improves employment environment,employability,labor compensation and labor protection,among which the impact on employability and employment environment is greater,and the impact on labor protection and labor compensation is the second.The mechanism test analysis shows that smart city construction mainly helps cities achieve higher quality employment by enhancing scientific and technological innovation,deepening the social division of labor,increasing per capita investment in science and technology,and improving urban employment structure.The spatial spillover effect test shows that the construction of smart cities has a significant positive spatial spillover effect on macro employment quality,playing a demonstration role of"center and periphery"co-development,forming a"trickle-down effect"and promoting the synergistic improvement of the overall employment quality of regional cities.The findings of the article provide empirical evidence and policy implications for promoting smart cities in the digital economy and striving to achieve high-quality urban employment.
digital economysmart citiesemployment qualitytime-Varying DIDspillover effects
万方数据
维普
