Impact of Digital Global Value Chain Participation on Industry Income Gap
Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2021,this paper constructs a benchmark regression model and a moderating effect model to empirically examine the impact of digital global value chain participation on the in-dustry income gap and explore the moderating effect of technological innovation and industrial agglomeration.It is shown that there is a significant inverted U-shaped relationship between participation in the digital global value chain and the industry income gap,meaning that as the level of participation in the digital global value chain increases,the industry income gap shows a trend of first expanding and then narrowing.The heterogeneity test shows that the inverted U-shaped effects exist in the eastern,central,western,and northeastern regions,but there are differences in the magnitude of such effects.Regu-latory effect test finds that technological innovation and industrial agglomeration play a moderating role in the impact of digit-al global value chain participation on the industry income gap.
industry income gapdigital global value chain participationtechnological innovationindustrial agglomera-tionmoderating effect