Amini, Alireza

Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - The Role of Human Capital and R&D in Total Factor Productivity in the Mining Sector

Promoting Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is one of the methods to improve the competitiveness in the mining sector. Even so, it is of great importance to find a practical solution for productivity improvement. In this study, value added was measured by an innovative method based on the Divisia quantity index for seven mineral activities for the period 1994-2016. The results of calculating TFP ...

[ 2 ] - The Asymmetry Effect of Real Wages on the Industrial Employment in Iran (NARDL Approach)

The study of the asymmetric effects of real wages on the employment rate as one of the performance variables of the industrial sector in the theoretical and experimental literature of industrial economics in recent years has been considered by economists in this scope. Therefore, in this paper, by using of nonlinear NARDL approach, the asymmetric effects of real wages on the employment rate of ...

[ 3 ] - Estimation and Analysis of Gender-Specific Labor Demand Functions in Iran

Despite the low participation rate of women in the labor market, the unemployment rate of women has increased significantly and has exceeded the unemployment rate of men in the last three decades. This paper focuses on the factors which affect labor demand considering gender using the data for the period 1986-2017. Based on the Multiple-Equation Generalized Method of Moments estimator, the resu...

[ 4 ] - Designing and measuring the composite human capital index of education type

The lack of a comprehensive index to measure the changes in human capital in various dimensions of the quantity and quality of education in the country has caused educational planners and policy makers to face a lack of information for planning the country's education.  This research was inspired by the model of making composite indicators published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation ...