• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.65-76
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• 2014

This paper analyzes whether local public expenditures have converged during the 1985-2011 periods in Korea, using the sixteen metropolitan and provincial governments data. We analyze the convergence of per capita real local public expenditures in terms of both static view and dynamic view of convergence. Furthermore, we derive the estimating equation for per capita real local government expenditure growth function from theoretical model based on Skidmore et al.(2004)[23]. The main results from empirical analyses are such that an increase in aged people helped local government expenditures increase. Also, we found that the convergence speed of economic expenditure is greater than that of social welfare expenditure. Similarly the convergence speed of public capital expenditure is greater than that of public consumption expenditure. In the future we had better examine the convergence of local public goods taking into account their congestion rates.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.159-178
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• 2024

This study aims to assess the direct and indirect impacts of local fiscal expenditures on water quality. Panel data spanning from 2010 to 2018 for 173 cities and districts in Korea are assembled, and a two-stage dynamic panel model is utilized for our estimation. The empirical findings reveal several key insights. Firstly, local fiscal expenditures on water quality are effective in ameliorating both Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Total Phosphorus (T-P). Notably, the direct impact on T-P surpasses that on BOD in the short and long run. Secondly, expenditures dedicated to water quality improvement demonstrate a positive effect on local economic growth, and an inverted U-shaped relationship is observed between BOD and local economic growth. Due to the positive linkage, the indirect effect on BOD suggests, on average, a deterioration in water quality during local economic growth. Thirdly, concerning BOD, the direct effect of government expenditure on water quality improvement outweighs the indirect effect, but in the case of T-P, the indirect effect is not significant, and the total effect is solely determined by the direct impact. Despite local fiscal expenditures potentially exacerbating water quality through regional economic growth, the study finds that the direct enhancement of water quality remains a more substantial factor in the short and long run.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.159-185
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• 2008

The balance between centralization (power concentrated nationally) and decentralization (power devolved to local government) is a perennial issue in the field of social welfare administration. In the design of social welfare administration, values and assumptions related to decentralization and centralization generally are expressed in choices concerning pluralism versus uniformity, small versus large. In this context, this article tried to find and analyze the problems of financial decentralization of social welfare pursued by No Moo-hyun government. The decentralization of social welfare caused horizontal inequity between local governments, lack of social welfare finance of local government, and impediment of local government finance autonomy.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.629-640
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• 2022

This study analyzed the relationship between local government size and regional economic growth using regional data from 2002 to 2020. By dividing local government expenditure into social development expenditure and economic development expenditure, economic growth and the inverted U-shaped Armey curve were verified, and the optimal size of local government expenditure was examined. In particular, the AMG estimation method considering the cross-sectional dependence and regional heterogeneity existing in the panel data was utilized. As a result of the analysis, it was found that there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between local fiscal expenditure and regional economic growth. When the proportion of total local fiscal expenditure is 7.63% of GRDP and social development expenditure is 3.45%, it is found that the optimal size of expenditure can maximize the regional economic growth rate. Local governments should increase the effectiveness of public expenditure policies by considering these points.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.111-143
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• 2021

It is necessary to analyze the budget power during the budget process of the local council, paying attention to strengthening the capacity of local council and reinforcing expertise to secure accountability. The budget power of council is expressed in various terms such as power of the purse and the authority to control the budget, and focuses on the role of control and check in the council's budget process. The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that political·administrative variables, social·economical variables affect the budget power of local council. The budget power of councils was set as the budget net modification rate and the period for processing the budget bill at the plenary session. And the effects of various variables were checked. As a result, the local council confirmed that there was a lack of checks and controls in the budget process.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.35-60
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• 2018

This paper investigates the effects of fiscal decentralization on public welfare finance, focusing that welfare status experienced a post-industrial society has proposed decentralization as a response. The decentralization includes local government responsibilities and expanded roles under the background of fiscal distress of center governments and new social risks. For the analysis, the first theory is established to find out the effect of fiscal decentralization on social expenditure. Also, the second theory is set up for the relationship between the level of fiscal decentralization and composition of social expenditure. Findings indicate that the level of social expenditure of state would decrease as the level of fiscal decentralization increases. Also, the more the level of fiscal decentralization increases, the more the in-kind benefits among total welfare expenditure increase.

• Korean Public Administration Review
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.437-461
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• 2014

최근 재정건전성에 관한 논의가 확산되면서 비과세·감면제도는 유용성 관점에서 근본적인 변화를 요구받고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 정부는 경기부양 등 지역경제 활성화 도모차원에서 비과세·감면제도를 지속적으로 활용하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 비과세·감면의 경제적 효과에 관한 분석의 필요성을 제기하며, 이를 위해 강원도 18개 시·군을 대상으로 지방세 비과세·감면이 지역경제에 어떠한 영향을 미치고 있는지에 관해 패널분석(PCSE)을 수행하였다. 패널분석 결과, 비과세·감면, 비과세, 감면 등이 지역경제에 미치는 영향은 다양하게 나타난다. 시 단위 지방자치단체의 경우 비과세·감면 규모가 증가될수록 지역경제에 정(+) 영향을 미치고 있다. 반면 군 단위 지방자치단체의 경우 변수 간 통계적으로 유의미하지 않아 비과세·감면정책이 지역경제를 활성화할 것이라는 정부의 주장은 다소 설득력이 낮다. 시 단위 지방자치단체의 경우 감면총액과 감면(조세특례제한법, 감면조례)규모가 증가될수록 지역경제에 정(+)의 영향을 미치지만, 지방세법 상 감면규모가 증가될수록 지역경제에 부(-)의 영향을 미치고 있다. 한편 군의 경우 지방세법 상감면규모가 증가될수록 지역경제에 정(+)의 영향을 미치지만, 감면조례에 근거한 감면규모가 증가될수록 지역경제에 부(-)의 영향을 미치고 있다. 분석결과에 근거한 정책적 함의는 다음과 같다. 정부는 지역경제 활성화를 위해 비과세·감면을 시행하면서 지방세수확충을 위해 또 다른 재정보전을 하고 있으나 지역경제에 미치는 영향이 그리 크지 않고 명확하지 않다. 따라서 비과세·감면의 규모를 줄이고 세수 확충을 통한 재정지출을 고려해야 한다. 특히 시 단위 지방자치단체의 경우 지방세법상 감면제도를 정비할 필요가 있고, 군 단위 지방자치단체의 경우 감면조례에 근거한 감면제도를 정비할 필요가 있다.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.183-212
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• 2004

지식기반 경제체제로의 전환과 맞물려 지속 가능한 국가 성장동력을 위해서는 사회적 기반 확충이 중요하다. 따라서 사회투자정책은 적당한 수준에서 소비적 지출이 아닌 "성과에 책임지는 최적의 투자" 관점으로 접근되어야 한다. 이를 위해서는 사회개발과 경제개발의 균형있는 예산자원배분, 사회정책 부문간 균형있는 재원배분이 필요하다. 또한 프로그램 구조 전체를 전제로 하는 결과 지향적 성과관리와 납세자 책임 노력이 요구된다. 마지막으로 사회 복지재정 부담과 관련하여 중앙과 지방정부간 합리적 재정관계를 모색해야한다. 최근의 정책환경 변화를 고려하여 지방교부세와 국고보조금 제도를 중심으로 한 지방재정지원체계를 개편해야 한다. 사회투자정책의 추진과정에서 관련부문간 재정적 갈등 쟁점이 발생할 수 있다. 예상되는 이해관계 상충부문들에 대한 합리적인 갈등관리 방안들이 사전에 마련되어야 한다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.207-231
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the intergovernment relationship on the local government's social welfare expenditure. The data of 230 local governments from 2003 to 2008 were analyzed with the PCSE(Panel Corrected Standard Errors) Model of Beck and Kats. The results were as follow. First, financial transfer from the higher governments increase the social welfare expenditure of the local governments. Second, the party structure, that is the political relationships among local, regional, and central governments, affect the social welfare expenditure of the local governments. Third, the local governments compete each other to expand the social welfare expenditure in Korea. These results suggest that the relationship of local governments with the higher ones as well as the community factors is important in Korea, where the centralization is still strong in the local autonomy system, to understand the development of social welfare.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.203-239
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• 2018

Responsible government can be achieved when social cleavages are institutionalized via political competition and social interests are represented by responsible parties. This paper aims to investigate the factors that determine welfare expenditures in Korean local governments by analyzing partisanship and political competition factors simultaneously in the same model. This paper also argues that the relationship between the political factors and welfare expenditures in local governments is not linearly increasing as the previous studies claim. This paper examines the welfare expenditures in Korean municipality-level local governments in 2007, 2011, and 2015. The primary findings are: 1) the partisanship of the head of local government and the party distribution of local assembly members have meaningful effect on the welfare expenditures and the divided governments do not show significantly different effect on welfare expenditures from unified governments, which is contrary to the extant studies, 2) the partisan effects of the head and the local assembly vary according to the levels of municipalities (Gu, Gun, and city), mainly due to the difference in types of revenues and expenditures and 3) the relationship between seats shares of progressive parties in local assembly and the welfare expenditure is not linearly increasing one. The effect of seats shares of progressive parties dramatically begins to increase when the seats shares are in 40%-60%. With these findings, this paper highlights the conservative nature of head of local governments with Hannara party (or Saenuri Party), the conservative leaning of independent candidates, and the conservative orientation of local assemblies in the regions dominated by Democratic Party (and its equivalents).