数字经济、母职惩罚与性别收入差距

Digital Economy,Motherhood Penalty and the Gender Income Gap

缩小收入差距、释放“性别红利”,对于家庭福利改善以及共同富裕实现都至关重要。通过构建测度数字经济的指标体系,结合2015—2019年中国家庭金融调查(CHFS)数据,探究了数字经济对性别收入差距的影响,以及从母职惩罚角度检验背后的影响机制。研究发现,数字经济能够缩小性别收入差距。机制分析表明,数字经济能够缓解母职惩罚,帮助母亲群体增强工作的稳定性和便利性并促进她们的就业参与,从而提高女性收入、缩小性别收入差距。

Narrowing the income gap and unleashing the"gender dividend"are crucial to the im-provement of family welfare and the realization of common prosperity.By constructing a digital e-conomy indicator system,combined with the the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)data from 2015 to 2019,the impact of the digital economy on the gender income gap is explored,and the mechanism test is conducted from the perspective of motherhood penalty.It is found that,the dig-ital economy can narrow the gender income gap.The mechanism analysis shows that,the digital e-conomy can improve female income and narrow the gender income gap by alleviating motherhood penalty,including enhancing job stability and flexibility,as well as promoting employment partici-pation.