Research On The Impact Of The Development Of The Digital Economy On Employment In China

Employment is the foundation of people’s live,the basis of development,but also the source of income.With a large population base,the demand for jobs in China is relatively high.In addition,the pressure on employment in China has increased due to the accelerated process of urbanization and industrial upgrading.Due to the update and development of information technology,the application field of the digital economy is constantly expanding,showing a greater influence on employment.However,the evaluation system of the digital economy lacks unified standards,and there is a lack of research on the integration of the digital economy with employment.Therefore,this paper constructs the evaluation index system of the digital economy level,and discusses the influence of the digital economy on employment from two aspects: employment structure and employment quality,which enriches the research on the digital economy and employment-related aspects and has application value for the participants of the digital economy industry,and provides a theoretical basis for the government’s policy formulation on industry and employment.It provides a theoretical basis for the formulation of government policies on industry and employment.This paper firstly compares and summarizes the relevant literature at home and abroad,and uses theoretical analysis,indicator analysis and empirical research to study the impact of the digital economy on employment.After clarifying the concepts related to the digital economy and employment,the paper analyses the possible impact mechanisms of the digital economy on different aspects of employment and describes and analyses the current stage of development of the digital economy and employment in China.An indicator system including three levels of digital infrastructure,digital transactions and digital applications is established,and the entropy method is applied to measure the level of development of the digital economy in each province in China from 2011 to 2021,and a horizontal and vertical comparison is made.Then,through the China Statistical Yearbook and the China Labor Statistics Yearbook,provincial panel data from 2011-2021 were selected to measure the level of employment structure and employment quality in each province,and a fixed-effects model was established with the help of Stata software to study the effect of the digital economy on employment structure and employment quality respectively,and regression analyses were conducted separately by dividing China into three major regions to study whether there is regional heterogeneity.Finally,TOPSIS was used to re-measure the level of digital economy and employment quality,replacing the explanatory variables and the explained variables respectively,and the empirical results of the model were tested for stability.The main conclusions are as follows: the level of the digital economy has steadily increased and has a significant impact on both the quality and structure of employment,and both are in the direction of optimization and upgrading,with regional heterogeneity in the impact effect.Based on the findings,relevant recommendations are made:improve the construction of digital infrastructure;actively develop new industries;improve employment services and attach importance to talent training;and narrow regional differences.The innovations of this paper are: enriching the comprehensive evaluation system;innovating the research content by setting the explained variables as employment structure and employment quality.The shortcomings are mainly: there is no standardized and unified measurement system for a comprehensive and integrated measurement of the level of digital economy,which may have a certain degree of bias;the restrictive nature of data acquisition makes the time span of the study relatively short.