Digital Government Construction and Enterprise Labor Productivity
ZHAO Renjie1, DU Ying2, HE Aiping1
1. School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China; 2. The School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Abstract Based on the data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2010 to 2022, this paper takes the launch of public data open platforms in various cities of China as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the difference-in-differences model to investigate the impact of digital government construction on the labor productivity of enterprises and its specific mechanism of action. The results show that the construction of digital government has significantly promoted the labor productivity of enterprises. This conclusion still holds true after a series of robustness tests. The mechanism test reveals that the construction of digital government mainly affects the enterprise labor productivity by improving labor investment efficiency, promoting human capital upgrading and enhancing employee labor enthusiasm. In addition, the heterogeneity analysis indicates that the improvement effect of digital government construction on enterprise labor productivity is more pronounced in small scale enterprises and enterprises with high degree of information uncertainty. The findings not only deepen the academic cognition of the micro-economic consequences of government digital transformation in the digital economy era, but also provide useful policy reference for promoting efficient production of enterprises and thus promoting high-quality economic development during the “ 15th Five-Year Plan ” period.
2025, Vol. 42 
