Urban Digital Economy Development and Skill Premium:Empirical Evidence from the Construction of National E-commerce Demonstration Cities
The development of urban digital economy has a profound influence on income distribution in the new era.Taking the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities as an exogenous shock,the paper uses China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)data in 2011,2013,2015,2017 and 2019 to investigate the influence of policy implementation on the wage of workers by DID method.At the same time,this paper also focuses on the wage premium of high-skilled workers relative to low-skilled workers by introducing an interactive term.It is found that the policy significantly improves the wage of workers as well as triggers prominent skill premium,and the influence varies by age,sex,industry,and region of the sample.Further,the transformation of industrial structure,the upgrading of export technology,the improvement of e-commerce sales volume and the accumulation of human capital are main channels.The conclusions of this paper provide a new perspective for understanding the income distribution influence of digital economy development.
Digital EconomySkill PremiumCommon ProsperityIncome Distribution