摘要:加强数字政府建设是推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的重要举措。本文以地方政府中小企业融资服务平台作为数字政府建设的外生冲击,研究这种数字政府建设对中小企业就业的影响及作用机制。研究发现,这一平台显著提高了中小企业劳动雇佣规模。机制分析表明,平台主要通过贷款可得性提高和资本-技能互补效应影响企业劳动雇佣决策、促进企业劳动力升级。企业层面的经济后果表明,平台主要提高了企业对高技能劳动力的雇佣,并且降低了对低技能劳动力的雇佣,重塑了中小企业劳动雇佣结构,提高了劳动配置效率。地区层面的经济后果表明,平台还通过促进地区创业带动就业,并提高地区总就业水平。本文为数字政府建设过程中信息共享的稳就业效应提供了理论依据,也为健全更充分更高质量就业的促进机制提供了政策参考。
Abstract: Strengthening the construction of digital government is an important measure to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. This paper takes the local government financing service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises as an external impact of digital government construction, and studies the impact and mechanism of this digital government construction on the employment of SMEs. Research has found that the platform significantly increases the scale of labor employment for SMEs. Mechanism analysis shows that the platform mainly influences enterprise labor employment decisions and promotes labor upgrading through improved loan availability and capital skill complementarity effects. The economic consequences at the enterprise level have been found that platforms have mainly increased the employment of high skilled labor by enterprises and reduced the employment of low skilled labor, reshaping the employment structure of SMEs and improving labor allocation efficiency. The economic consequences at the regional level indicate that the platform also promotes regional entrepreneurship to drive employment and increase the overall employment level in the region. This paper provides a theoretical basis for the stable employment effect of information sharing in the process of digital government construction, and provides policy references for improving the promotion mechanism of more comprehensive and high-quality employment.