数字经济赋能残疾人就业的效应和路径研究

Digital Economy Development Empowering the Employment of Persons with Disabilities:Effects and Paths

残疾人就业是残疾人事业的重要组成部分,但长期以来残疾人受自身条件的限制,在劳动力市场的就业比例整体偏低。数字经济发展有望成为解决残疾人就业问题的重要契机,成为提升残疾人就业水平的发力点。为考察数字经济发展对残疾人就业的效果,本文构建了数字经济提升残疾人就业的理论分析框架,采用实证分析方法对2017-2022年的6期省级面板数据进行验证。研究发现,在就业效应方面,数字经济能够有效提升残疾人的就业水平;在机制路径方面,数字经济主要通过优化产业结构、提升就业包容度和激发自主创业活力三条机制路径提升残疾人就业能力,促进其更好地融入劳动力市场。为此,本文从建立数字关爱服务体系、完善灵活就业人员社会保障体系和加大残疾人创业扶持力度三个方面提出相关的政策建议。

The employment of persons with disabilities is an important part of the cause of persons with disabilities,but the overall employment rate of persons with disabilities in the labor market has been relatively low for a long time due to the limitation of their own conditions.The development of digital economy is expected to become an important opportunity to solve the employment problem and an empowering way to enhance the employment level of persons with disabilities.To examine the effects of digital economy development on enhancing the employment of persons with disabilities,we constructed a theoretical analytical framework of the digital economy development enhancing the employment of persons with disabilities,and verified the effects of the framework using six waves of provincial panel data collected from 2017 to 2022 with empirical analysis methods,then found that in terms of the effects of promoting employment,digital economy development can effectively enhance the employment level of persons with disabilities;in terms of the paths of mechanism,digital economy development mainly enhances the employment ability of this group to better integrate into the labor market through three paths of mechanism,namely optimizing the industrial structure,enhancing the inclusiveness of the labor market and activating the entrepreneurial energy of persons with disabilities to start their own businesses.Accordingly,we put forward relevant policy recommendations from three aspects:establishing a digital care service system,improving the social security system for those with flexible employment,and increasing the support for those staring their own business.