数字产业集群政策如何影响就业?OACHSSCD

In the context of the new pattern of development and the construction of a modern industrial system,digital industrial cluster policies hold theoretical value and practical importance for promoting synergy between industry and employment while exploring employment-friendly development paths.Based on data from Chinese listed companies and prefecture-level cities and above from 2000 to 2023,this paper employs a multi-period difference-in-differences(DID)method to empirically examine the impact of digital industrial cluster policies on corporate employment levels and the underlying mechanisms.The results indicate that these policies can increase corporate employment,primarily through production scale expansion,cluster spillovers,and financing constraint mitigation.Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the positive impact is more pronounced in regions with superior digital infrastructure,industries with higher competition levels,and the eastern and central regions of China.These findings provide empirical evidence and policy enlightenment for deepening the construction of digital industry clusters and promoting high-quality and full employment during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The marginal contributions are threefold.First,from a research perspective,this paper investigates the impact of digital industrial cluster policies on corporate employment at the micro level,extending the theoretical framework of the relationship between the digital economy and the labor market.Existing studies mostly focus on macro-economic growth or regional evolution,with limited micro-level assessments of employment effects.By treating digital industrial cluster policies as a quasi-natural experiment,this paper leverages their characteristic of using scientific and technological resources to drive the aggregation of labor and other factors of production to construct a corporate employment level indicator and apply the DID approach for evaluation.This provides a robust empirical basis for understanding how such policies influence firms'hiring decisions.Second,regarding the mechanisms,this paper departs from firms'hiring decisions to analyze the drivers of employment growth through production scale expansion,cluster spillovers,and financing constraint mitigation.It focuses on how these policies promote innovation and entrepreneurship by attracting enterprises,talent,and financial resources and strengthening spillover effects while enhancing the capacity of firms to absorb labor through fiscal support and venture capital.Third,in terms of governance value,this paper extends from policy effect identification to implementation path optimization.By addressing practical bottlenecks in cluster construction,it proposes targeted suggestions such as classified policy implementation,structural guidance,and diversified financing support,providing decision-making references for achieving high-quality industrial development and employment synergy,and exploring employment-friendly development paths.