数字经济缩小了行业工资差距吗——基于产业-就业结构偏差的视角

Does Digital Economy Reduce Inter-Industry Wage Differentials-A Perspective of Industry-Employment Structure Deviation

厘清数字经济优化我国产业-就业结构,影响行业工资差距的作用机制,有助于更加深入地认识和处理产业结构与就业质量之间的关系。区别于以往单一维度的研究,将数字经济、产业-就业结构、行业工资差距纳入同一个框架,从产业-就业结构偏差的视角切入,对数字经济与行业工资差距之间的因果关系、作用机制以及溢出效应进行实证检验。研究结果发现,数字经济的发展对行业工资差距的缩小具有显著的正向作用。进一步通过作用机制检验表明,数字经济能够通过纠正产业-就业结构偏差而缩小行业工资差距。同时基于空间杜宾模型直接证实了数字经济空间溢出效应的存在,数字经济的发展能够同时缩小本地及其邻近城市的行业工资差距。

Clarifying the mechanism by which the digital economy optimizes China’s industrial employment structure and affects the wage gap in industries can help to gain a deeper understanding and handling of the relationship between industrial structure and employment quality.Different from previous single dimensional studies,this study incorporates the digital economy,industry employment structure,and industry wage gap into the same framework.From the perspective of industry employment structure bias,it empirically tests the causal relationship,mechanism of action,and spillover effects between the digital economy and industry wage gap.The research results found that the development of the digital economy has a significant positive effect on narrowing the industry wage gap.Further testing of the mechanism of action indicates that the digital economy can narrow the industry wage gap by correcting the deviation in the industry employment structure.At the same time,based on the spatial Durbin model,the existence of spatial spillover effects in the digital economy has been directly confirmed,and the development of the digital economy can simultaneously narrow the industry wage gap between the local and neighboring cities.