首都经济贸易大学学报2025，Vol.27Issue(6)：53-66,14.DOI:10.13504/j.cnki.issn1008-2700.2025.06.005
企业数字化转型、城市数字基础设施与劳动力数字技能需求
Digital Transformation of Enterprises,Urban Digital Infrastructure and the Demand for Labor Digital Skills
摘要
Abstract
China has designated the development of new quality productive forces as a national priority.A-gainst the backdrop of this strategic initiative and the deepening integration of digital and physical economies,artifi-cial intelligence(AI)and digital technologies are reshaping the demand structure for skills in the labor market.In particular,jobs associated with digital transformation increasingly require workers to possess digital skills. To examine this shift,this paper first constructs a dictionary of keywords for measuring the digital skills re-quired for various jobs,based on the task descriptions of occupations classified as digital in the Chinese Standard Classification of Occupations(2022 edition).Using natural language processing techniques,it analyzes unstruc-tured job descriptions from online job postings to quantify the specific digital skill requirements for different occupa-tions.It further matches these digital skill measurements with firms' levels of digital transformation to assess the im-pact of digital adoption on the demand for digital skills.Additionally,this paper explores the heterogeneous effects of digital transformation on digital skill demand across different dimensions.It provides theoretical insights into the development of new quality productive forces in the digital economy,the evolving trajectory of digital skill upgra-ding in the labor market,and strategies for promoting high-quality employment. The empirical analysis yields three primary findings.First,firms' digital transformation significantly increases recruitment demand for digital skills,and this effect remains robust after addressing endogeneity with an instrumen-tal variable approach and robustness checks.Second,the development of urban digital infrastructure partially sub-stitutes for firms' demand for digital skills.Third,heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of digital transforma-tion on digital skill demand is strongest in positions requiring doctoral degrees and in those with less than 1 year of experience;and the effect is positive in agriculture-related sectors,negative in finance,and most pronounced in high-tech industries. This paper makes three key contributions.First,it constructs a comprehensive digital skills dictionary based on job descriptions of digital occupations and applies NLP techniques to analyze job descriptions in online recruit-ment advertisements.Second,it quantifies the impact of firms'digital transformation on labor market demand for digital skills by leveraging text data from corporate online job postings,thereby offering a more precise assessment of job-specific skill demands.This helps address gaps in the existing literature regarding the effects of digital trans-formation on labor skills.Third,it refines the methodology for measuring digital transformation by addressing the subjectivity in keyword selection.By systematically synthesizing existing digital economy terminology and previously used keywords for measuring corporate digital transformation,this paper develops a more comprehensive measure of digital transformation among listed firms,reducing potential measurement errors.关键词
新质生产力/数字化转型/数字技能/城市数字基础设施/招聘岗位任务内容Key words
new quality productive forces/digital transformation/digital skills/urban digital infrastructure/job posting task分类
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张艺,司徒东博,李秀敏..企业数字化转型、城市数字基础设施与劳动力数字技能需求[J].首都经济贸易大学学报,2025,27(6):53-66,14.基金项目
国家社会科学基金后期资助一般项目"数字经济时代零工工资影响因素研究"(22FJYB045) （22FJYB045）
国家自然科学基金面上项目"粤港澳大湾区创新网络演进与政策效应:创新要素流动的视角"(72173032) （72173032）
