当代财经 ›› 2024, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (7): 17-30.

• 理论经济 • 上一篇    下一篇

信息技术变革背景下工作任务与收入不平等

李朝婷, 李雪慧   

  1. 中国社会科学院 财经战略研究院,北京 100006
  • 收稿日期:2023-12-09 修回日期:2024-02-17 出版日期:2024-07-15 发布日期:2024-08-27
  • 通讯作者: 李朝婷,中国社会科学院财经战略研究院编辑,经济学博士,主要从事劳动经济学研究,联系方式lict11@163.com。
  • 作者简介:李雪慧,中国社会科学院财经战略研究院副编审,经济学博士,主要从事宏观经济研究。
  • 基金资助:
    中国社会科学院青年人文社会科学研究中心社会调研项目“中国女性青年就业现状调查研究”(2024QNZX012); 中国社会科学院重大创新项目“提高人民生活品质,完善全社会基本公共服务体系研究”(2023YZD024)

Job Tasks and Income Inequality in the Context of the Changing Information and Communications Technology

LI Chao-ting, LI Xue-hui   

  1. National Academy of Economic Strategy, CASS, Beijing 100006, China
  • Received:2023-12-09 Revised:2024-02-17 Online:2024-07-15 Published:2024-08-27

摘要: 随着信息智能化的飞速发展,根据劳动力所从事职业的工作任务是否更易被编码和自动化,工作任务可被划分为常规任务和非常规任务。从不同类型工作任务回报差异的视角理解收入不平等的变化是一个崭新的视角。基于中国综合社会调查和职业信息网络数据对工作任务回报差异与收入不平等的研究表明,劳动力从事的职业中非常规任务越密集,其获得的回报越高;常规任务越密集,其获得的回报越低。不同类型工作任务内部收入不平等现象也不尽相同,非常规任务密集的职业中,其职业内收入不平等更高;而在常规任务密集的职业中,职业内收入不平等相对较低。在非国有单位和信息技术发达地区,非常规工作任务的高回报更显著,职业内收入不平等问题严峻。对中国2002—2020年总体收入不平等的变化进行反事实分解发现,非常规任务和常规任务的回报差异是影响总体收入不平等的主要原因,对总体收入不平等有增加的作用,非常规任务和常规任务的结构变化对总体收入不平等的影响很小。

关键词: 非常规任务, 常规任务, 收入不平等, 信息技术

Abstract: With the rapid development of information intelligence, the job tasks according to the profession of the labor force can be divided into routine tasks and non-routine tasks based on whether the tasks are easier to code and automate. It is a new perspective to understand the changes of income inequality from the reward differences of different tasks. Based on the data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and the Occupational Information Network, this paper conducts a study of the reward differences of job tasks and the income inequality. The findings show that the denser the non-routine tasks in the occupations engaged by the labor force, the higher the returns they receive, and that the more intensive the routine tasks are, the lower the returns they receive. The phenomenon of income inequality within different types of work tasks is also not the same. In occupations with intensive non-routine tasks, the income inequality within the profession is higher; while in occupations with intensive routine tasks, the income inequality within the profession is relatively lower. In non-state-owned organizations and in the areas with advanced information technology, the higher returns of non-routine work tasks are more significant, and the problem of income inequality within the professions is severe. A counterfactual decomposition of the changes in the overall income inequality in China from 2002 to 2020 reveals that the difference in returns between non-routine and routine tasks is the main cause of overall income inequality, with an increasing effect on the overall income inequality. The structural changes in non-routine and routine tasks have little impact on the overall income inequality.

Key words: non-routine tasks, routine tasks, income inequality, information technology

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