The unemployment–labor force participation linkage in Iran’s women labor market

Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Calá, Carla Daniela

doi:10.1108/ijdi-11-2021-0228

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“…In contrast to these studies, the UIH is affirmed by the seminal contribution of Layard et al (1991) for the United Kingdom [9]. Moreover, cointegration-based support for the UIH is provided for Australia (Nguye Van, 2016), Romania (Ot ¸oiu and T ¸it ¸an, 2016), Turkey (Tansel et al, 2016;Arisoy, 2018) [10] and Iran (Cheratian et al, 2022).…”

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Is labour force participation independent of unemployment? A panel analysis for high-income countries

Paternesi Meloni

2024

IJM

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PurposeWe test the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis (UIH) for a set of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.Design/methodology/approachWe empirically investigate the nexus between unemployment and labour force participation employing structural vector autoregressive methods for panel data.FindingsWe find that shocks in unemployment produce long-lasting, negative effects on participation, testifying to a discouraged worker effect.Originality/valueOur results do not support the validity of the UIH in high-income economies. This has relevant implications for policy making and macroeconomic models.

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Is labour force participation independent of unemployment? A panel analysis for high-income countries

Paternesi Meloni

2024

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“…For more details on the LFS and corresponding studies see Yousefi et al. (2022), Cheratian et al . (2022), Farahzadi and Rahmati (2020) and Salehi-Isfahani and Mostafavi-Dehzooei (2018), among many others.…”

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Does COVID-19 disrupt competition? Evidence from Iran

Yousefi¹,

Taiebnia

2023

JES

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PurposeFollowing the COVID-19 outbreak, there are concerns whether economies are becoming farther from equality and competency. While this matters to every economy, it is more crucial for developing ones who already suffer from income inequalities and lack of competency. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses an administrative data from the Iran's Social Security Organization (ISSO) that provides insurance to workers entitled to the Labor Law of Iran. The data contain more than 7,000,000 workers. The authors assess heterogeneous impact of the first wave of the pandemic by firms' size and average payment.FindingsThe authors’ estimation results indicate that, following the initiation of the pandemic, the workers whose corresponding firms are smaller, overall, are more prone to the pandemic and are more likely to submit a request for unemployment benefits. However, the relation is neither homogeneous across sectors nor linear among micro-sized firms. Few sectors indicate a positive relationship between size and likelihood of request submission, including cultural activity, shoemaking and clothing sectors. Besides the size, the authors investigate whether pay grades could explain the probability of becoming unemployed after the pandemic. Results show that workers whose corresponding firms pay less are more likely to submit a request. This is robust within different sectors.Research limitations/implicationsThe ISSO dataset is not a panel, so the authors cannot employ methods of causal inferences. The authors’ results should be seen as correlation; however, due to exogeneity and sharpness of the pandemic the result infers to some degree of causality. The data does not cover the informal sector, so the estimates are at lower boundary.Originality/valueAdministrative data on unemployment benefits during COVID-19 show that the pandemic interferes with competition by forcing low-paid workers and small firms to exit the market. This is an alarm for the competition in every economy, specially developing ones.

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Social determinants of health inequity in Iran: a narrative review

Rezaei

Moghaddam

Farzadfar

et al. 2022

J Diabetes Metab Disord

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Objective COVID-19 burden the health system by influencing several aspects of social determinants of health (SDH). We review SDH inequity in Iran with notice on COVID-19 pandemic and sanctions. Method The Databases such as MEDLINE, Scopus, and Google Scholar were searched. The SDH components were extracted regarding the effect of COVID-19 and sanctions. Global burden of disease was used to evaluate the impact of sanctions on mortality in Iran. Result The literacy rate improved over the last decades but, there is still inequality between provinces. Age and regional inequity exists, regarding NCD mortality. Food insecurity varies in different regions between 20% and 60%.Providing care for a growing aging population, with a large burden of NCDs and disabilities will be the major issue in the next decade. The decrease slop of mortality rate due to NCDs, have become smoother since impose of sanctions, while, cancer mortality have changed upwards. COVID-19, and sanctions negatively impacts lower socioeconomically vulnerable groups due to preexisting conditions which wider the existing inequity in SDH are adding a heavy burden of inequity in Iran. Conclusion Iran, similar to large numbers of countries, face inequity at regional level in different SDH related issues. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that economic status and health are aligned. Sanctions superimposed on the COVID-19 pandemic cause harm to millions of innocent people. One of the main goals of health authorities is to reduce SDH inequity in order to achieve the goal of “health for all”. To tackle these inequities, prompt action is needed.

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The unemployment–labor force participation linkage in Iran’s women labor market

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Is labour force participation independent of unemployment? A panel analysis for high-income countries

Is labour force participation independent of unemployment? A panel analysis for high-income countries

Does COVID-19 disrupt competition? Evidence from Iran

Social determinants of health inequity in Iran: a narrative review

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