Public service delivery, corruption and inequality: key factors driving migration from North Africa to the developed world

Matallah, Siham

doi:10.1007/s40847-020-00101-5

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“…On the input side of the urban system, both resource scarcity and resource redundancy prevent the urban system's UME from reaching the Pareto optimum plane [29,30]. However, inequality in public services will contribute to the continued flow of basic factors of production, such as capital and labor, from the countryside to the towns and cities, ultimately leading to resource redundancy in the cities [31][32][33]. At the same time, low factor returns in less developed cities reinforce barriers to factor mobility and thus contribute to the scarcity of resources in some cities [34][35][36].…”

Section: Impact Of Nu On Umementioning

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Does New Urbanization Promote Urban Metabolic Efficiency?

Liao

2024

Sustainability

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Existing studies have paid less attention to the impact of new urbanization (NU) on urban metabolic efficiency (UME). This paper empirically tests the mechanism and the effect of NU on UME based on China’s panel data from 2008 to 2020, using China’s NU pilot as a quasi-natural experiment. The study draws the following conclusions: (1) NU can significantly promote UME. (2) NU can promote UME for cities in neighboring regions. (3) The effect of NU on UME presents the heterogeneous characteristics of eastern region > central region > western region, non-urban agglomeration cities > urban agglomeration cities, and is greater in central cities than in non-central cities. (4) Mechanism analysis shows that NU can promote UME through six paths: promoting urban–rural integration and regional synergistic development, reducing urban sprawl and energy mismatch, strengthening urban–rural population mobility, and green innovation division of labor. The above results are not only conducive to incorporating UME into NU’s appraisal system but also to making UME, which can reflect the quality of urban development in a more comprehensive and systematic way, a performance measurement tool for NU.

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Section: Impact Of Nu On Umementioning

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Does New Urbanization Promote Urban Metabolic Efficiency?

Liao

2024

Sustainability

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“…Migrants are attracted by the possibility of employment, the expectation of a better standard of living, and lower levels of corruption. Matallah (2020) analyzes the impact of public service delivery, inequality, and good governance on North African migration to developed countries over the period 1996-2015. Empirical results indicate that lower inequality, higher government effectiveness, and more access to basic services would discourage emigration.…”

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The Impact of Corruption on Migration: Evidence from the Western Balkans

Malaj,

Firza

2023

Migrat. Lett.

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The fight against corruption remains one of the most fundamental problems for Western Balkans societies and governments. Hiring in the public sector is often determined by networks and clientelism. The exchange of favours and loyalty to a patron are the “normal” ways to access economic opportunities. As a result, a considerable portion of the population considers emigration as the only path to succeed. The main objective of this study is to analyse the impact of corruption on Western Balkan migrant stocks over the years from 2012 to 2020. The selected time period depends mainly on data availability and frequency. A gravity-based equation is developed to explain changes in the number of immigrants living in 31 European destinations. The proposed econometric model confirms the statistical significance of corruption variables in migrant stocks of receiving countries. Individuals tend to move from countries with high levels of corruption and poor governance toward richer and less corrupt destinations.

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“…On the other hand, another branch of literature distinguishes between pull and push factors leading to immigration and emigration in a given country (Mohamed & Abdul-Talib, 2020;Unguren et al, 2021;Garelli & Tazzioli, 2021;Piras, 2021;Khalid & Urbański, 2021). The push factors leading to high emigration rates from a country are mainly corruption (Matallah, 2020;Arif, 2022), unemployment (Baumann et al, 2015;Cimpoeru, 2020;Espinosa & Díaz-Emparanza, 2021), unstable political environment (Mourão et al, 2018;Agadjanian & Gorina, 2019;Žižka & Pelloneova, 2019;Grumstrup et al, 2021;Kang, 2021), military instability (Habchak & Dubis, 2019;Veebel, 2020), climate changes (Barassi et al, 2018;Schutte et al, 2021;Reichman, 2022), low wages and income (Fischer & Pfaffermayr, 2018;Delogu et al, 2018), low or negative economic growth (Tolmacheva, 2020;Lupak et al, 2022;Gavurová et al 2017). The pull factors leading to high immigration rates to a country are high wages and income (Laajimi & Le Gallo, 2022), low level of poverty (Hager, 2021;Urbański, 2022), high standard of living (Hager, 2021), high economic growth (Schwabe, 2021), immigration and integration policy (Beverelli, 2022), welfare (Cebolla-Boado & Miyar-Busto, 2020;Ferwerda & Gest, 2021), immigrant networks (Kaplan et al 2016;Kabir, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%