Impacts of national development and decentralization policies on regional income disparity in Korea |
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| Authors: | Euijune Kim Euijune Kim Sung Woong Hong Soo Jung Ha |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea (e-mail: ejkim@yonsei.ac.kr),, KR;(2) and Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois, 220 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Mathews, Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA (e-mail: ejkim96@uiuc.edu), US;(3) Construction and Economy Research Institute of Korea, Construction Bldg. 7-12 Nonhyun-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul, 135-701 Korea (e-mail: cerik@soback.kornet.net), KR |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyzed the effects of national development and decentralization policies on the regional income disparity in
Korea. It also attempted to test whether there was a structural change in the causal relationship between income inequality
and its determinant factors. This study found that the degree of variation in regional incomes was positively correlated with
the spatial distribution of decentralization instruments such as educational services, employment, infrastructure facilities,
and information network variables. The effects of some decentralization policies on regional income inequality were fully
realized within a period of three years. Finally, the impacts of the spatial decentralization of public goods on regional
inequality fluctuated until the early 1980s but were stabilized as industrial restructuring and spatial reorganization progressed
during the 1990s.
Received: December 2001/Accepted: June 2002 |
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| Keywords: | JEL classification: O15 R12 R15 |
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