数字技术对劳动力就业的影响——基于智慧城市的视角

The Impact of Digital Technology on Labor Employment—Based on the Perspective of Smart City

推动就业导向原则是我国重要的战略发展方向,数字技术的迅速发展为我国实行就业优先战略提供了新的发展机遇。本文基于智慧城市的准自然实验,通过对2006~2021年全国275个城市的样本数据进行分析,采用多时点双重差分模型来评估二者之间的关系,研究智慧城市的建设是否会对劳动力就业产生促进作用。研究发现:以智慧城市为代表的数字技术的发展能够显著促进劳动力就业,并且在经过稳健性分析后,实证结果仍然成立。同时,智慧城市建设在东部、西部地区以及大规模城市产生的效果更加明显。本文的结论为促进城市高质量发展和劳动力就业水平的提高提供了新的证据和参考。

Promoting the employment-oriented principle is an important strategic development direction in China. The rapid development of digital technology provides new development opportunities for China to implement the employment-first strategy. Based on the quasi-natural experiment of smart cities, this paper analyzes the sample data of 275 cities in China from 2006 to 2021, using the multi-time different-in-difference model to evaluate the relationship between the two. And the paper studies whether the construction of smart cities will promote labor employment. The research finds that the development of digital technology represented by smart cities can significantly promote labor employment. And the results are still valid after robustness analysis. At the same time, the effect of smart city construction is more obvious in the eastern and western regions and large-scale cities. The conclusion of this paper provides new evidence and reference for promoting high-quality urban development and improving the level of labor employment.