Employment challenges and opportunities in the construction of smart ports

IF 4.4 2区工程技术 Q2 BUSINESS

Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101462

Wenqian Chang , Yingxiu Zhao , Yanan Zheng

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Abstract

This study explores the talent demand during the construction of smart ports, providing decision-making support for human resource development and deployment, and offering references for career planning. Firstly, it clarifies the employment status of smart port construction and presents hypotheses. Next, it extracts data characteristics of Tianjin Port, and the employees of container terminal enterprises, forming an indicator system. Then, it evaluates the smart port construction using the Entropy TOPSIS and utilizes the cross-quantilogram to obtain the correlation with the talent characteristics. Subsequently, the method of empirical likelihood ratio is used to classify the matching of smart ports and talent characteristics. Finally, robustness analysis is conducted. It indicates that with the smart port advancement, the number of knowledge-intensive and technology-intensive positions increases, while labor intensive positions decrease. Smart port construction imposes higher requirements on the skills, educational background, and career planning of symmetric employees, but there is no age discrimination as hypothesized.

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智慧港口建设中的就业挑战与机遇

本研究探讨智慧港口建设过程中的人才需求，为人力资源开发部署提供决策支持，并为职业生涯规划提供参考。首先，明确了智慧港口建设的就业现状，并提出了假设。其次，提取天津港和集装箱码头企业员工的数据特征，形成指标体系。然后，利用熵TOPSIS对智能港口建设进行评价，并利用交叉量化图获得与人才特征的相关性。随后，采用经验似然比方法对智能端口与人才特征的匹配度进行分类。最后进行鲁棒性分析。表明随着智慧港口的推进，知识密集型和技术密集型岗位数量增加，劳动密集型岗位数量减少。智慧港口建设对对称员工的技能、学历、职业规划提出了更高的要求，但不存在假设的年龄歧视。

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8.30%

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175

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