Is the Urban Shrinkage Inhibits the Improvement of Public Service Level?

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By:Yanru Deng, Mingdou Zhang

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jbar.v3i3.1892

Abstract:
Public services provide convenient conditions for urban residents to study,
work and live, and have important significance for improving the life
quality of residents and improving the level of welfare. However, while
China’s spatial economic is heading towards agglomeration development,
a large number of cities have shrunk, which has made unbalanced supply
of public services between regions increasingly prominent. Based on the
existing literature and the development reality, this paper analyzes the
impact of urban shrinkage on the public service level from the public
service supply mechanism, and discusses the heterogeneous effects of
different labor shrinkage on public services. The results of the study show
that urban shrinkage will inhibit the improvement of public service level,
but inter-governmental competition makes the labor shrinkage of industry
and service industry promote the improvement of public service level. In
addition, this paper takes economic development level as a moderating
variable to study the moderating effect of economic development level in
the impact of urban shrinkage on public service levels. It is found that the
reduction of economic development level will promote government com
petition and provide more public services.
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