互联网与中国农村劳动力非农就业

The Internet and Non-agricultural Employment of Rural Labor Force

本文使用中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS)2014年度数据,实证分析了互联网使用对农村劳动力非农就业的影响,并通过工具变量法解决了模型中由于互为因果导致的内生性问题。研究发现,互联网使用能够有效提高农村劳动力选择非农就业的概率,包括成为工资获得者以及自我雇佣。并且发现互联网属于技能偏向型技术进步,对高学历劳动者的影响要大于低学历劳动者。互联网至少从提高劳动者社会资本、减少家务劳动时间两个渠道对劳动者的非农就业选择产生影响。

This paper uses CFPS2014 survey data to analyze the influence of Internet use on the non-agricultural em- ployment of rural labor force, and solves the endogenous problem by selecting two instrumental variables. The study found that the use of the Internet can effectively improve the rural labor force to choose non-agricultural employment probability, including as a wage earner and self-employment. And we also found that the Internet is a kind of skiU-bi- ased technical change, the impact on highly educated workers is greater than the low degree of education workers. The Interact influences the non-agricultural employment at least from two aspects, increasing social capital of workers and reducing the time of domestic work.