in this study economic and welfare impacts of establishing irrigation water market in qazvin province as well as potentiality of irrigation water transfer under stress irrigation conditions in the cities of qazvin province were analyzed. to achieve the above objectives, positive mathematical programming model and state wide agricultural production functions were used. to achieve applicable resu...

We consider why the gender division of labor is so often enforced by custom and why customary gender divisions of labor generally involve both direction and prohibition. In our formal model, agents first learn skills and then enter the marriage market. We show that wasteful behavior may emerge due to strategic incentives in specialization choice and human capital acquisition and that both probl...

Although the Muslim world is sometimes depicted as a homogeneous civilization lacking democracy and gender equality, Muslim countries show tremendous economic, political and cultural variation. In this paper, this variation is used to gain insight into the determinants of women’s labor market participation (LMP) in the Muslim world. We use data on 45 Muslim countries and apply SEM models to det...

We construct an agent-based model to examine the effects of referral based hiring and of the structure of social networks on three labor market phenomena: the steady state level of equality between groups, measures of segregation at steady state, and the rate of convergence to steady state. When firms hire by referral the relative structure of social networks in majority and minority groups det...

This paper evaluates the impact of some key labor market reforms on rural-urban inequality and income distribution, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of China. We also explore how these factor market reforms interact with product market reforms currently underway as part of China's WTO accession process. The simulation results show tha...