A Review of Research on the Employment Effects of China's Digital Economy: Based on LDA Thematic Modeling

Yuanhao Lv; Yifei Xie; Zhenggang Song

doi:10.54691/b6hc9k49

Authors

Yuanhao Lv
Yifei Xie
Zhenggang Song

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/b6hc9k49

Keywords:

Digital economy, employment effects, thematic model, research framework, literature review.

Abstract

The development of digital economy has profoundly affected the scale, structure and quality of employment in China. Academic research around the employment effect of digital economy is increasing, but related studies are scattered and have not yet formed a clear research framework. In this paper, we take 94 Chinese literatures on the employment effect of China's digital economy as the research object, aggregate 14 research themes based on the LDA thematic model, and identify four main research contents, namely, characterization, antecedents, influence mechanism and effect results, by combining manual coding and the LDAvis visualization tool. Based on this, a comprehensive research framework on the employment effects of China's digital economy is constructed, and possible future research directions are pointed out in order to promote the development of related research.

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[26] The size of the solid circles indicates the frequency of occurrence of the themes, and the themes are numbered according to the frequency order of occurrence; the distance between the solid circles indicates the proximity of different themes; the dashed ellipses are manually drawn based on the distance between the themes and the manual coding of the aggregation of larger themes. In addition, the overlap of the solid circles is formed by the projection of themes in n-dimensional space into 2-dimensional space, and does not represent the actual overlap of different themes.