광역지방자치단체 주민들의 생활환경 수준에 미치는 경제요인 분석

The purpose of this study is measure quality of local life index about major cities in Korea. That major cities in Korea's quality of local life indices are estimated by Principal Component Analysis in Econometrics. Factor affecting quality of local life are found to be local tax revenue, number and size of large firms, values of local public properties and population densities. If the ranks of major cities are assigned in accordance with the quality of local life indices, the coefficient of rank correlation is calculated as 0.90 for both years of 2013 and 2008. This implies that quality of local life indices are satisfied robust and stable by Spearman Rank correlation coefficient. Also, the distribution of quality of local life index is found to be left skewed. This implies that the number of major cities, the quality of local life index of which are less than the average, surpass 50% of the total number of major cities. Quality of local life index differentials are found to be extremely large. In order to change the rank from 8th, which is about middle class city, to be extremely large. to the 1st, local tax revenues and values of local public properties should be increased by 30 times approximately. Since the power of local public finance is the major determinant of quality of local life index, the inter-governmental resource allocation mechanism is suggested to be modified in order to consider the quality of local life index differentials.