This paper systematically studies the multidimensional effects of digital economy on labor employment and its internal mechanisms, and finds that digital economy has significant employment creation effects through the birth of new formats and new posts, which are embodied in direct creation, form creation, association creation and space creation; meanwhile, its substitution effects also impact traditional employment deeply, which are embodied in four aspects: automation substitution, de-intermediation, skill iteration acceleration and overall format substitution. Creation effect and substitution effect work together to promote the transformation of employment form from fixed post to task, platform and distance, and lead to the characteristics of skill polarization and liquid employment structure. This paper puts forward systematic countermeasures from three levels of government, society and individual, including constructing digital skills and lifelong learning system, innovating labor and social protection system, implementing employment-friendly industrial policies, upgrading public employment services and promoting regional inclusive development, so as to promote employment stability and high-quality development in the digital economy era.
Zhu Yajie (2025) studied this question.