This paper examines the impact of the digital economy on the employment quality of migrant workers from the perspective of their social integration. Using the 2017 National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring Data, the paper constructs evaluation systems for the digital economy and employment quality, measures them using the entropy method, and employs quantile regression to analyze and explore the relationship between the two. The study finds that the digital economy positively affects the employment quality of migrant workers, a conclusion that remains significant after endogeneity tests and robustness checks. Quantile regression results show that the impact of the digital economy on migrant worker employment quality is generally U-shaped. Further mechanism tests demonstrate that social integration plays a positive mediating role between the two. Based on the empirical findings, the paper suggests focusing on migrant workers with medium and low skill levels and cultivating an atmosphere of urban humanistic care to enhance their sense of belonging.

Guo Zhouaojie. Research on the impact of digital economy on the employment quality of migrant workers. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 2: 95-99. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2025.070213.

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