The influence of digital economy development on the employment characteristics of rural women
Digital economy has become a new engine of high-quality development,promoting the transformation of employment structure.This paper constructs a comprehensive digital econ-omy index from the perspective of input-output,and adopts semi-parametric generalized additive model(GAM)to study the impact and mechanism of digital economy on employment of rural women based on China Family Panel Studies(CFPS).The results show that,first,the relation-ship between digital economy and the employment characteristics of rural women is non-linear.With the development of digital economy,the labor participation rate and income of rural women show an upward trend,while working hours show a downward trend.Second,the higher level of digital economy has smaller positive effects on rural women's wage income,business income and the employment in manufacturing industry,while it promotes women's the employment probability of high-quality service industry more significantly.Third,digital economy influences rural women's employment by increasing their disposable time,human capital and the access to information.In addition,the results of heterogeneity show that the digital economy affects more significantly on the employment probability and individual income of highly skilled rural women;It also plays a positive effect on women with heavy parenting burden;The rural revitalization strategy can help rural women adapts the development of digital economy.Therefore,the gov-ernment should not only promote digital economy,but also improve the knowledge and skills of rural female,which can magnify the cumulative effects of the digital economy on human capital,and meet the requirements of the digital economy for high-quality labor force.
digital economyrural womenemploymentincome sourceemployment structure