Measurement and Analysis of Regional Labor Market Inequalities in the 4th Development Plan (in Persian)

Azouji, Ala’eddin ()
Additional contact information
Azouji, Ala’eddin: Iran

The Journal of Planning and Budgeting (٠صلنامه برنامه ریزی و بودجه), 2011, vol. 16, issue 2, 83-106

Abstract: Regional development, regional policies execution and decreasing imbalances have always been the challenges of governments during the last two decades. One could refer to the inequalities of labor markets among different regions of the country in the development plans performance. One of the goals of the 4th development plan (2005 - 2009) was to decrease the difference between the highest and lowest rate of unemployment among the provinces to 5.5 percent in the end of the plan. This research tries to survey and precisely measure the changes of regional inequalities between two outstanding indicators of labor market, i.e. unemployment rate and labor participation rates, in 30 provinces of Iran within the 4th development plan, using regional inequality measures. The results show that according to official statistics, the gap between the highest and lowest unemployment rates among provinces in the end of the plan was 12.6 percent while that of the labor participation rates was 16.2 percent. Taking the inequality indicators into consideration, it should be mentioned that unemployment rate inequality among the regions have relatively decreased, but contrary to expectations, labor participation rate has increased. Meanwhile in the 4th development plan, inequalities trend of two regionally important indicators of labor market has been the reverse of national level.

Keywords: Regional Inequalities; Labor Market; Inequality Measures; 4th Development Plan; Iran (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://jpbud.ir/article-1-336-en.pdf (application/pdf)
http://jpbud.ir/article-1-336-en.html (text/html)
http://jpbud.ir/article-1-336-fa.html (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:auv:jipbud:v:16:y:2011:i:2:p:83-106

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The Journal of Planning and Budgeting (٠صلنامه برنامه ریزی و بودجه) from Institute for Management and Planning studies Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Nahid Jebeli ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).