Digital finance and migrant workers' urban integration: The mediation effect of the gender-earning gap.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the context of the wide application of digital finance, whether digital finance promotes or inhibits migrant workers' urban integration is an important issue.

Methods

Based on microdata from the Chinese Social Survey (CSS) in 2019, we examined the mediation effects of inclusive digital finance on migrant workers' urban integration.

Results

The empirical results showed that digital finance promotes migrant workers' integration into urban life and has positive effects. When the digital finance index increases by 1 unit, the urban integration of migrant workers also increases by 0.599 units. The usage depth and digitization degree of digital finance are positively correlated with the assimilation process of urban migrant workers, with coefficients of 0.69

SUBMITTER: Yang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806269 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature