Impact and mechanism of service outsourcing policy on city's entrepreneurship activity:evidence from service outsourcing model cities
Based on the panel da ta of 283 cities in China from 2006 to 2021,the paper explores the powered effect of service outsourcing model cities'policies on entrepreneurship activity.The study shows that service outsourcing model cities'policies have effectively improved the level of urban entrepreneurship,and the empirical conclusions are still valid after the robustness tests of PSM-DID and two-stage DID.The triple difference model test results show that digital economy policy and institutional opening-up policy of service industry have a synergistic effect,and the higher the government's digital attention,the more significant the role of service outsourcing model cities'policies in entrepreneurship activities.The driving effect of those policies is more obvious in cities with higher level of opening-up,lower dependence on resources and better business environment.This paper enriches the research in the field of service outsourcing policy and provides policy reference for stimulating social creativity and endogenous power of regional economy.
service outsourcing model citiesentrepreneurship activitygovernment digital attention