An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies

Thomä, Jörg

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.12.020

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“…Table 2 listed the participants' detailed demographic information. In the previous study, geographic locations were divided into two levels, including rural and urban areas (Wu et al 2023;Thomä, 2023), depending on the remoteness and administrative division of schools. Rural teachers accounted for 43.40% and urban teachers for 56.60%.…”

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What are the determinants of rural-urban divide in teachers’ digital teaching competence? Empirical evidence from a large sample

Lin,

Chu,

Yang

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The digital divide between rural and urban areas is becoming the key factors resulting educational imbalance, which might be exacerbated by differences in teachers’ digital teaching competence. Therefore, it was crucial to explore the divide and determinants of digital teaching competence between rural and urban teachers. A large-scale survey was conducted with 11,784 K–12 teachers in China (43.40% from rural schools and 56.60% from urban schools). First, this study investigated potential factors for teachers’ digital teaching competence, including information and communication technology (ICT) attitude, ICT skills, and data literacy. Second, the data indicated the digital divide existed, i.e., the ICT attitude, ICT skills, data literacy, and digital teaching competence of rural teachers were significantly lower than those of urban teachers. Third, the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method demonstrated that data literacy and ICT skills were the most important determinants of the divide in digital teaching competence between rural and urban teachers. Hence, our research provided important insights for policymakers, school leaders and teachers to bridge the digital divide.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What are the determinants of rural-urban divide in teachers’ digital teaching competence? Empirical evidence from a large sample

Lin,

Chu,

Yang

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…The Taobao village, featured by diffusing e-commerce platforms in rural China, is regarded as a prominent and effective means of revitalizing rural areas and narrowing the rural-urban gap by both academia and the government [13], through transforming the structure, processes, and strategies of most industries but also spawning entirely new enterprises and industrial chains. In addition to China's case evidence, Germany's tales also proved that digital platform-oriented firms are relatively often located in urban regions, whereas digital manufacturers are of significance for rural industrialization [54].…”

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Enabling In-Situ Urbanization through Digitalization

Li,

Song

2023

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The bourgeoning of e-commerce in the context of the information era has accelerated the urbanization trend by broaching a new horizon of economic and industrial boosters for rural places, epitomized by a great number of “Taobao Villages” in China. This paper has two objectives: (1) explore the process and mechanism of digitalization enabling rural in-situ urbanization represented by e-commerce; (2) nuance the specific case evidence of Daiji Town, where digitalization enabled in-situ urbanization recently. We build up a theoretical framework for digitalization-enabled in-situ urbanization from the juxtaposition of four interlinked elements: industry, talent, rural governance, and land use. It then analyzed the details and evidence of digitalization enabling rural in-situ urbanization through the case study of Daiji Town. The main conclusions of this paper are as follows: First, digitalization plugs rural areas into production and consumption networks in wider contexts, promoting the transformation and prosperity of rural economies. Secondly, the reverse migration of young generations to rural areas becomes the key to rural in-situ urbanization. Thirdly, digitization materializes the urbanization of rural spaces. Finally, digitalization enables the rural transformation and improvement of urban-rural relations in the Global South, which needs to be further explored.

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“…Research has shown that, in rural areas, intergroup digital inequality hinders household income growth and exacerbates inequitable income distribution [42]. Resource and spatial advantages lead digital platforms to prefer locating in cities [43]. However, there are spatial differences at the level of urbanization development between regions [44].…”

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Research on Sustainable Economic Dynamics: Digital Technology Development and Relative Poverty of Urban Households

Jin,

Deng

2024

Sustainability

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The digital application gap and relative poverty caused by the development of digital technology are both important factors affecting sustainable economic dynamics. This paper explores the impact of digital technology development on the relative poverty of urban households in China, using the China Household Tracking Survey CFPS2010–2018 and the word frequency crawling technology of Python software. The results indicate that failure to adapt to the demands of digital technology may result in a multidimensional digital technology application gap, leading to increased income inequality among urban households and a higher likelihood of relative poverty. In economically developed areas, households headed by individuals with low levels of education and high levels of family support should be particularly mindful of the phenomenon of digital poverty. This paper expands the research scope of relative poverty and deepens the understanding of the relationship between digital technology and economic development, which is beneficial for the government to accelerate the construction of internal and external support mechanisms and to effectively address the challenges posed by sustainable economic development.

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An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

What are the determinants of rural-urban divide in teachers’ digital teaching competence? Empirical evidence from a large sample

What are the determinants of rural-urban divide in teachers’ digital teaching competence? Empirical evidence from a large sample

Enabling In-Situ Urbanization through Digitalization

Research on Sustainable Economic Dynamics: Digital Technology Development and Relative Poverty of Urban Households

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