The Korea Local Administration Review

The purpose of this research was to find the determinants of foster local talents selected through the recruiting system in public institutes that relocated to provincial area as part of a balanced regional development project. This study focused particularly on the impacts of the different circumstances of local educations and regional human resources as well as local governance system on the employment’s ratio selected through the system of local talent recruitments. Specifically, this research conducted an empirical study with using a panel dataset with 10 innovative cities of South Korea. The analysis was based upon panel fixed-effect model with the period from 2014 to 2018.
Our analysis offers evidence that the longer duration of local governance is positively related to increase the employment’s ratio selected through the system of local talent recruitments. Also, the results of empirical models are showing that the circumstances which are located more national universities have been negative influential to be hired more local talents selected through the recruiting system in public institutes. Indeed, the analytical evidence shows clearly that all else held equal, the size of graduate numbers in regional community colleges may have negative impacts to stimulate local talents selected through the recruiting system in the public institutes located within the innovative cities. Our research provides empirical confirmation that active cooperation among regional stakeholders through local governance can promote for improving these recruiting system.