DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2023.1072
title: Study on the mismatch of labor supply and demand and the path of industrial upgrading in the context of digital economy

description: With the rapid development of digital economy, the mode of production has correspondingly changed a lot, resulting in a series of challenges in China's economy in recent years: deterioration of ecological environment, "bottleneck" of key technologies, blind competition for industrial transfer, mismatch between labor supply and demand and other problems. As an important factor of production in industrial development, labor force plays an important role in improving the mode of production and upgrading the industrial structure. In the new development stage, to explore the impact mechanism of the mismatch between labor supply and demand and the upgrading of industrial structure, as well as the adjustment effect mechanism of digital economy, is an effective way to solve the practical problems in China.Under the background of digital economy, this paper mainly studies the influence of the mismatch of labor supply and demand and industrial structure upgrading in China, as well as the path of digital economy to adjust the mismatch of labor supply and demand and industrial structure upgrading. Firstly, the literature research of scholars all over the world is sorted out. Then it discusses the mechanism of labor mismatch affecting industrial structure upgrading and the adjustment path of digital economy. Then use statistical data to analyze China's current situation and existing problems. After reviewing relevant literature and combing related theories, the paper obtains some enlightenments and puts forward several hypotheses in this paper: first, the mismatch of labor supply and demand will reduce the production efficiency of the industry and inhibit the upgrading of industrial structure; Second, the mismatch of labor supply and demand will inhibit the utilization efficiency of human capital, hinder the spillover effect of knowledge, and inhibit the rationalization of industrial structure. Third, the adjustment effect of digital economy can force the improvement of human capital, forcing the industry to replace labor with capital to improve the industrial structure, which is conducive to the upgrading of industrial structure. Fourth, digital economy can alleviate the negative impact of the mismatched industrial structure rationalization of labor supply and demand through innovative production mode, promoting industrial integration, creating effect and alleviating the asymmetric contradiction of information, so as to promote the upgrading of industrial structure. The empirical analysis results of this study show that, firstly, the mismatch of labor supply and demand in China has a direct inhibitory effect on the upgrading and rationalization of industrial structure; Second, China's digital economy, which has played an important role in adjusting the imbalance between labor supply and demand and improving the industrial structure; Third, there are significant differences in the degree of labor supply and demand mismatch among different regions in China, which have different impacts on the upgrading process of industrial structure in different regions.