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TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
卷 47, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2023.102545
关键词
Digital economy; Female employment; Gender equality perspectives; Use of digital technology; Labor demand
Using data from multiple sources, this research examines the impact of the digital economy on female employment in China. The findings suggest that the digital economy has a significant positive effect on female employment, promoting the formation of egalitarian gender perspectives and increasing labor demand for female-preference occupations. However, the digitalization of the economy does not lead to overall improvements in the quality of female employment, with underemployed females experiencing longer working hours and minimal improvement in employee rights and interests.
Using data from the China General Social Survey, the China Family Panel Studies, and a unique dataset of enterprises' online recruitment, this research examines the effect of the digital economy on female employment. The empirical results suggest that the digital economy significantly promotes female employment. Consistent with our theoretical analysis, the estimates indicate that this relationship holds because the digital economy promotes the formation of egalitarian gender perspectives, promotes the use of digital technology, and increases labor demand emphasizing the necessity for female-preference occupations. The dividend of the digital econ-omy is tilted toward vulnerable groups in the labor market, including the low-skilled, older, and rural workforce, and only exerts an employment promotion effect on women without parenting burden. Further examination reveals evidence that digitalization has not led to a holistic improvement in the quality of female employment. Digitalization lengthens the working hours of severely underemployed female workers, and improves women's occupational status and job satisfaction; however, it has a minimal impact on protecting employees' rights and interests or reducing overtime workers' work intensity. Nonself-employed, full-time, and part-time workers all benefit from the development of the digital economy, while self-employed workers do not. In addition, a weakening effect of digitalization on the gender employment gap is not evident, which relates to the digital economy generating a female dividend in terms of promoting gender equality and increasing labor demand but resulting in a digital gender divide in the use of digital technology.
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