scholarly journals The Impact of State-owned Urban Land Leasing on Intention to Reside of Migrant Labors

2020 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 01042
Author(s):  
Mingfeng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
House Price ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Secondary Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
House Building ◽  
Land Leasing

Based on the data of the 74310 individual migrant labors from 250 cities that distribute uniformly in China, taking the fiscal stress of the local governments as the instrumental variable due to endogeneity, the IV-probit models indicate that: the area of state-owned urban land leasing promotes the overall intention to reside of migrant labors. Besides, the use structure of urban land leasing matters as well. Land leasing for public service effects the intention to reside positively while land leasing for house building and the secondary industry restrain the intention through mediators like education, house price and industry scale. State-owned urban land leasing for the tertiary industry is proven uncorrelated with the intention to reside, however. It is advised that the local governments ought to choose the urban land leasing structure with larger proportion of land for public service and less proportion of residential and industrial land to strengthen the intention to reside of migrant labors.

scholarly journals LAND-LEASING BEHAVIOR, LOCAL OFFICIALS’ PROMOTIONS, AND CHINESE CITIES’ DEBT RISKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 485-496
Author(s):  
Lihua Zhang ◽  
Rui Han ◽  
Juanfeng Zhang ◽  
Lele Li ◽  
Danxia Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Debt Burden ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Dependence Level ◽  
Bank System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Land Bank ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Land Leasing

This study first analyzes how local governments’ land-leasing behaviors affect Chinese cities’ debt risk then examines the impact of officials’ promotion mechanisms on debt risk in China’s urban land bank system. The land-leasing behavior is reflected through three indicators, namely, land-leasing revenue, land-leasing scale, and land financial dependence level. Two new indicators are constructed to measure the local government’ debt risk from the perspective of debt scale and debt repayment: the debt scale risk and debt burden risk. Empirical analyses are based on the data of 281 prefecture-level cities from 2006–2015. The main findings are twofold. First, the debt scale risk is positively affected by the land-leasing revenue, and officials’ promotion pressure. The debt burden risk is positively affected by the land financial dependence and officials’ promotion pressure. Second, the officials’ promotion pressure significantly enhances the positive effect of land-leasing revenue on the debt scale risk. Local officials, who are under promotion pressure, are inclined to expand the size of urban investment bonds, which increases debt scale risk.

scholarly journals Political Cycles and the Mix of Industrial and Residential Land Leasing

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Fang ◽  
Chuanhao Tian ◽  
Xiaohong Yin ◽  
Yan Song
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Party Committee ◽  
Political Cycles ◽  
Strategic Behaviors ◽  
Land Leasing

This paper studies how political cycles change the mix of industrial and residential land in urban land leasing. The mixture of different types of land leasing in cities affects urban landscape, resident welfare, and economic sustainability. Using prefecture-level panel data from China and statistical regressions, this paper finds that cities lease out 3% more industrial land, as a percentage of total annual urban land leasing, when their party committee secretaries have been in office for no more than two years. In the same period, they lease out 2% less residential land. This is explained by the strategic behaviors of party committee secretaries to increase their chances of political promotion. Urban land leasing fuels local economic performance and increases the chance of city leaders’ promotion. While the economic benefits of residential land are immediate, those of industrial land cannot be reaped until two years later. This divided timeline results in more aggressive leasing of industrial land early on in party committee secretaries’ service terms, and that of residential land later on. Mayors’ service terms do not have the same effect. This political cycle distorts the temporal and spatial distributions of industrial and residential land in cities, and results in inefficient land use and unstable real estate markets.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of E-Service Quality and User Satisfaction of Public Service Centers in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenghan Ming ◽  
Tao Chen ◽  
Qi Ai
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Public Service ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

This article describes how as part of the reform of the administrative system of China, most local governments have set up public service centers; meanwhile, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has been commonly applied to make e-services more convenient, efficient and transparent. However, the existing studies in the Chinese context are mostly qualitative and the relationship between service quality and citizen satisfaction has not been tested. This article adopted the D&M model to develop an e-service quality model and tested the impact of service quality on citizen satisfaction. A survey was conducted and 364 valid questionnaires were analyzed. The results showed that the data fit the model well. Most of the hypotheses formulated in this article was proven. Additionally, an important finding was that the impact of service quality on specific satisfaction is stronger than that of information quality and system quality, which indicates that face-to-face services cannot simply be substituted by electronic systems. Both the theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.

The Process of Program Phaseout: An Examination of the Dismantling of the US Public Service Employment Program

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-298
Author(s):  
S A MacManus
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Federal Grant ◽  
Public Service Employment ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Employment Program ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Employment ◽  
Program Expansion

This article examines the dynamics of the dismantling of a large US federal grant-in-aid program, the Public Service Employment Program (PSEP), to determine whether the same factors that affect program expansion affect program contraction, and in a similar manner. Specifically, an examination is made of: (1) the impact local fiscal and political pressures have on the reactions of three groups of local policymakers (elected officials; PSEP administrators; administrators of agencies employing PSEP workers); and (2) the relationship between these policymakers' reactions and changes in PSEP objectives. The units of analysis are forty-two local governments located across the USA (a representative sample). The time frame of the analysis is December 1979–December 1980—a period of rapid phaseout in the PSEP. The results show that the same factors which dictate the actions of different sets of policymakers during program expansion also determine their relative levels of involvement in the phaseout period and their policy preferences (PSEP objectives) during retrenchment. The findings also suggest that local governments with long histories of federal program participation have developed fairly sophisticated reactive strategies, since phaseouts are expected events in the lives of most federal programs. These reactive strategies vary according to the economic and political conditions existing at the time of the mandated phaseout.

Administrative Values and Cutback Politics in American Local Government

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. West ◽  
Charles Davis
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Institutional Response ◽  
Fiscal Constraints ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Cutback Management ◽  
Limited Applicability ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Fiscal constraints facing local governments and citizen resistance to tax increases have given impetus to cutback management. Some analysts have focused attention on the causes or consequences of reduced expenditures for programs and personnel while others have focused on strategies designed to buffer the impact of fiscal stress on public employees and the delivery of governmental services. A recent study by Klingner and Nalbandian indicates that cutback management can be viewed as an institutional response to conflict among the four basic values underlying public sector human resource management—political responsiveness, social equity, individual rights, and administrative efficiency. The authors test this model using data from a national survey of urban personnel managers. They conclude that the administrative values framework has limited applicability to the analysis of local cutback management and suggest that theory testing is inhibited by structural aspects of urban fiscal problems.

Modeling Fiscal Stress and Contracting Out in Local Government: The Influence of Time, Financial Condition, and the Great Recession

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 565-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio M. López-Hernández ◽  
José L. Zafra-Gómez ◽  
Ana M. Plata-Díaz ◽  
Emilio J. de la Higuera-Molina
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Various studies have analyzed the relationship between fiscal stress and contracting out, but have failed to achieve conclusive results. In this article, we take a broad view of fiscal stress, addressed in terms of financial condition and studied over a lengthy period (2000-2010). The relationship between fiscal stress and contracting out is studied using a dynamic model, based on survival analysis, a methodology that enables us to take into account the effect of time on this relationship. As this study period includes the years of the Great Recession (2008-2010), we also highlight the impact of this event on the fiscal stress–contracting out relation. The results obtained suggest that taking into account the passage of time and conducting a long-term assessment of financial condition enable a more precise understanding of this relation. We also find that the Great Recession reduced the probability of local governments’ contracting out public services.

Impact of Truck Parking Facilities on Commercial and Industrial Land Values: A Spatial Hedonic Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110513
Author(s):  
Sharif Mahmud ◽  
Sarah Hernandez ◽  
Suman Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Hedonic Model ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Spatial Autoregressive ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transportation Agencies ◽  
Parking Facilities

Strategic locations for truck parking capacity expansion should be selected to maximize benefits to drivers and industry while minimizing negative externalities to communities. To select strategic locations, local governments, developers, state transportation agencies, and private truck stop operators need to understand how parking facilities affect local economies. Although sufficient parking capacity allows drivers to adhere to federally mandated rest requirements, demand for safe parking is outpacing supply. Truck parking demand is likely to grow as freight tonnage is estimated to increase 1.2% per year between 2018 and 2045 and mandates for electronic logging devices go into effect. However, truck parking facilities can be viewed by local communities and real-estate developers as producing pollution, noise, and congestion. Yet, they may also represent economic opportunities for tax revenues for the local economy and agglomeration benefits for surrounding trucking-related industries. To address these concerns, a systematic, data-driven review of the economic impacts of truck parking facilities is critical. This paper applied a spatial-autoregressive model with autoregressive disturbances to estimate the impact on commercial and industrial land values attributed to proximity to truck parking facilities. Significant benefits to local land values were found: every 1% increase in distance from a parking facility was associated with a 0.284% decrease in land values, which corresponds to a $2,465/acre reduction in value for an average parcel. The findings of the study could help transportation agencies and truck stop operators strategically locate truck parking facilities to harness the economic benefits to local communities.

scholarly journals Bagaimana Pemerintah daerah merespon Fiscal Stress?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Iqbal Lhutfi ◽  
Hamzah Ritchi ◽  
Ivan Yudianto
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Capital Expenditures ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Local Revenue ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The Impact

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>ABSTRACT</span></p><p><span>This study aims to find out and analyze how the response of the regency/municipality to the occurrence of fiscal stress, which is the inability of local governments to generate sufficient income in the current period to meet their expenditure. This study used descriptive qualitative approach to explore primary data information.. This study used Yogyakarta municipality and Surakarta municipality as research sample, the author conducted interviews with related parties for data collection. The results of this study found that the character of local government entities is an important factor in how the region responds to fiscal stress. Regional Original Income has significant influence on fiscal stress, high or low Regional Original Income will affect the confidence of the region in allocating the budget that will be used for public services. The higher the ability of a region in optimizing local revenue, the smaller the impact of fiscal stress on the area, and vice versa. Another response from local governments to fiscal stress is to allocate appropriate Capital Expenditures in accordance with priorities, so that regional potential will increase and attract investors, so that it will grow the economy of the region, and in the end it is expected to increase regional income in the future. In addition to avoiding fiscal stress, the regional government allocates capital expenditures from Special Allocation Funds (DAK), so that these funds if its increase or decrease have little effect on the fiscal stress, because the capital expenditure funding comes from central government transfer funds.</span></p><p><span>Keywords : </span><span>Fiscal Stress, Response, Yogyakarta, Surakarta</span><span>ABSTRAK</span></p><p><span>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis bagaimana respon pemerintah kabupaten/kota terhadap terjadinya fiscal stress yang merupakan ketidakmampuan pemerintah daerah untuk menghasilkan pendapatan yang cukup dalam jangka waktu saat ini untuk memenuhi pengeluarannya. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan mencoba menggali informasi data primer ke narasumber. Penelitian ini menggunakan kota yogyakarta dan kota surakarta sebagai sampel penelitian, dan penulis melakukan wawancana ke pihak terkait untuk pengumpulan data. Hasil dari penelitian ini menemukan bahwa karakter entitas pemerintah daerah adalah faktor penting bagaimana daerah tersebut merespon terjadinya fiscal stress. Pendapatan Asli Daerah memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap fiscal stress, tinggi atau rendahnya Pendapatan Asli Daerah akan mempengaruhi kepercayaan diri daerah tersebut dalam mengalokasikan anggaran belanja yang akan digunakan untuk pelayanan publik. Semakin tinggi kemampuan suatu daerah dalam mengoptimalkan pendapatan asli daerah, semakin kecil pula dampak fiscal stress pada daerah tersebut, begitu sebaliknya. Respons lain dari pemerintah daerah terhadap fiskal stress adalah dengan mengalokasikan Belanja Modal yang sesuai sesuai dengan prioritas, sehingga potensi daerah akan meningkat dan menarik investor, sehingga pada akhirnya akan menumbuhkan perekonomian daerah tersebut, dan pada akhirnya diharapkan akan meningkatkan pendapatan daerah di masa yang akan datang. Selain itu untuk menghindari fiscal stress pemerintah daerah mengalokasikan belanja modal berasal dari Dana Alokasi Khusus (DAK), sehingga dana ini apabila mengalami kenaikan atau penurunan tidak terlalu berpengaruh terhadap tingkat fiscal stress daerah tersebut, karena pembiayaan belanja modal tersebut berasal dari dana transfer pemerintah pusat.</span></p><p><span>Kata kunci : </span><span>Fiscal Stress, Respon, Yogyakarta, Surakarta</span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam

2014 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDMUND J. MALESKY ◽  
CUONG VIET NGUYEN ◽  
ANH TRAN
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Public Service Delivery ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Versus

Comparative political economy offers a wealth of hypotheses connecting decentralization to improved public service delivery. In recent years, influential formal and experimental work has begun to question the underlying theory and empirical analyses of previous findings. At the same time, many countries have grown dissatisfied with the results of their decentralization efforts and have begun to reverse them. Vietnam is particularly intriguing because of the unique way in which it designed its recentralization, piloting a removal of elected people's councils in 99 districts across the country and stratifying the selection by region, type of province, and urban versus rural setting. We take advantage of the opportunity provided by this quasi experiment to test the core hypotheses regarding the decision to shift administrative and fiscal authority to local governments. We find that recentralization significantly improved public service delivery in areas important to central policy-makers, especially in transportation, healthcare, and communications.

The Impact of Urban Land Reserve System on House Prices

2013 ◽  
Vol 438-439 ◽  
pp. 1816-1819
Author(s):  
Rui Jun Yan ◽  
He Fang Xu
Keyword(s):  
House Prices ◽  
House Price ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Land System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Land Reserve ◽  
Reserve System ◽  
Real State ◽  
State Territory

In recent years of China, land reserve system has become a vital measure of urban land system reform, it also has been a hotspot of the reform for real state territory. Starting from the land reserve, this paper will research the changes of house prices after land reserve occurs, and reveal how the land reserve makes effect on house price.

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