数字技术和地区收入不平等：更好的制度是解决方案吗？

IF 2.4 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI:10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100079

Roberto Antonietti , Chiara Burlina , Andres Rodríguez-Pose

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在本文中，我们研究了区域数字技术（包括计算、通信设备、软件和数据库）对区域收入分配的影响。我们的目标是填补现有研究的空白，探索正式和非正式制度的调节作用，如纽带和桥梁社会资本，在塑造数字技术如何影响2006年至2016年欧洲NUTS2地区的收入不平等。研究结果表明，数字技术普及程度越高的地区，收入不平等程度越高。然而，强大的正式和非正式制度，特别是通过提高政府效率和弥合社会资本，减轻了这种负面联系。研究结果对潜在的内生性问题是稳健的，正如所采用的工具变量方法所证明的那样。

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Digital technology and regional income inequality: Are better institutions the solution?

In this paper, we examine the effect of regional digital technology (including computing, communication equipment, software, and databases) on income distribution at the regional level. We aim to fill a gap in existing research by exploring the moderating role of formal and informal institutions —such as bonding and bridging social capital— in shaping how digital technology affects income inequality across European NUTS2 regions from 2006 to 2016. The results indicate that regions with greater access to digital technology are prone to higher levels of income inequality. However, this negative link is mitigated by strong formal and informal institutions, particularly through improved government effectiveness and bridging social capital. The findings are robust to potential endogeneity concerns, as demonstrated by the instrumental variable approach adopted.

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4.40

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期刊介绍： Regional Science is the official journal of the Regional Science Association International. It encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of topics in the field of regional science. These topics include, but are not limited to, behavioral modeling of location, transportation, and migration decisions, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial statistics. The journal publishes papers that make a new contribution to the theory, methods and models related to urban and regional (or spatial) matters.