• 中国科学学与科技政策研究会
  • 中国科学院科技政策与管理科学研究所
  • 清华大学科学技术与社会研究中心
ISSN 1003-2053 CN 11-1805/G3

科学学研究 ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 345-354.

• 科技管理与知识管理 • 上一篇    下一篇

企业数字化与劳动收入份额新变化

丁守海1,2,冀承3   

  1. 1.
    2. 中国人民大学
    3. 中国人民大学应用经济学院
  • 收稿日期:2022-11-29 修回日期:2023-01-05 出版日期:2024-02-15 发布日期:2024-02-15
  • 通讯作者: 冀承
  • 基金资助:
    强化就业优先政策、稳定和扩大就业研究

Enterprise digitization and the new change of labor income share

  • Received:2022-11-29 Revised:2023-01-05 Online:2024-02-15 Published:2024-02-15

摘要: 在数字经济蓬勃发展的同时,中国劳动收入份额出现止降转升的新变化。本文基于沪深A股上市公司微观数据,考察了数字化对劳动收入份额的影响及其作用机制。研究发现:劳动收入份额随数字化程度的提升而呈向下的“倒U型”关系;机制检验表明,数字化程度对技能结构的“倒U型”影响是数字化影响劳动收入份额的重要路径;进一步研究发现,现阶段上市公司数字化程度处于“倒U型”曲线的左侧,在未来一段时间内数字化程度提升仍将有助于改善劳资分配关系;不同要素密集度、所有制的上市公司数字化程度对劳动收入份额的“倒U型”影响具有显著差异。为持续提升劳动收入份额,政府应继续加速推进与数字化相关的基础设施建设,加大对企业数字化转型的扶持力度;企业应定期组织职工参与数字化培训,推动劳动者技能结构升级。

Abstract: In recent years, with the rapid development of new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, the digital economy has deeply integrated with the real economy. The digital economy has become a new wave, a new driving force and a new engine leading economic development. With the vigorous development of digital economy, China’s income distribution pattern has also seen new changes. In recent years, the labor income share has shown a new trend of turning from declining to rising, and the labor-capital distribution relationship has improved. Therefore, this paper puts forward two important questions: Is there a significant relationship between the new change in China’s labor income share in recent years and the improvement of the degree of digitalization? What channels does digitalization promote the increase of labor income share? This paper uses the micro level data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen in China, adopts the method of combining text analysis and manual judgment, and constructs indicators to measure the degree of enterprise digitalization from the two dimensions of digital intangible assets and digital keywords. The research finds that the labor income share presents an “inverted U-shaped” downward relationship with the increase of digitization degree. The mechanism test shows that the “inverted U-shaped” effect of digitalization on skill structure is an important path for digitalization to affect labor income share. Further research shows that the digitalization degree of listed companies at the present stage is on the left side of the “inverted U-shaped” curve, and the improvement of digitalization degree will still help to improve labor distribution relations in the future. The “inverted U-shaped” effect of different factor intensities and ownership of listed companies on labor income share is significant. The innovation of this paper mainly includes the following two aspects: First, this paper finds that booming digitalization is promoting the increase of labor income share, which provides important evidence to explain the new change of the increase of labor income share in recent years. Moreover, it is expected that in the future period of time, the improvement of digitalization degree will continue to drive the rise of labor income share. Second, from the perspective of skill structure, this paper discusses the important mechanism of the influence of digitalization on the “inverted U-shaped” labor income share. Accelerating the upgrading of labor skill structure will help to continuously increase the labor income share, and provide feasible solutions for the continuous improvement of labor distribution relations. This paper recommends that the government should continue to accelerate the construction of digital-related infrastructure and increase the support for enterprises’ digital transformation. Enterprises should regularly organize employees to participate in digital training and promote the upgrading of workers’ skill structure.