Abstract
This paper makes a theoretical analysis on the impact of Internet development on the floating population's willingness to stay. It uses the method of principal component analysis to measure the Internet development level of 290 cities in China. On this basis, it matches the micro data of individual labor force and empirically tests the impact of Internet development on the floating population's willingness to stay. The research finds that the development level of urban Internet will limit and reduce the migrant population's willingness to emigrate. For each unit of urban Internet development, the possibility of labor force's intention to emigrate from the city will be reduced by 11.44%; Compared with the middle-aged and the old and the low skilled labor force, the middle-aged and the young and the high skilled urban labor force are more sensitive and responsive to the Internet, and are more likely to be encouraged by the development of the Internet and choose to stay in their cities. This study provides policy implications for urban talent attraction and labor competition.
Publisher
Darcy & Roy Press Co. Ltd.
Reference16 articles.
1. Betsey Stevenson. The Internet and Job Search [J]. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008.
2. Kuhn P, Mansour H. Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective? [J]. The Economic Journal, 2014, 20(581): 1213-1233.
3. Campos R, Arrazola M, Hevia J D. Online job search in the Spanish labor market[J]. Telecommunications Policy, 2014, 38(11): 1095-1116.
4. Zhang Wenwu, Yu Yongze. Diversity of urban services and labor mobility -- based on the big data of Meituan and the micro survey of floating population [J]. Financial Research, 2021, 30(9): 91-110.
5. Zhu Jinhe, Wang Yali, Hou Linqi. How can the evaluation of civilized cities promote the inflow of labor force? [J]. Industrial Economy Research, 27(3): 43-56.