abstract the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between capital stock and increasing the productivity of labor and total factor productivity (tfp) in industrial groups of khorasan razavi province from 2003 to 2007. in order to this first, the available literature in this area and the importance of productivity was reviewed, also the history of productivity in asia and the ...

T his study investigated the effect of international labor migration on Iran’s economy using a neo-classical growth model with the assumption of labor heterogeneity within the framework of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. After solving the model, the obtained equations were linearized and different values were assigned to the parameters according to Iran’s economy inform...

this paper investigates the effect of foreign trade and human capital on economic growth using pooling data for the oic member countries over the period 1980-2003. for this purpose, the soderbom-teal (2003) growth model is re-specified with the variables such as growth of manufacturing exports, manufacturing imports, human capital, labor force and physical capital. the empirical results indicat...

in the initial models of economic growth, economic factors entered in to models but in the following models, non-economic factors entered in to models. many broad studies were done on this subject by the economists, and already considerable results were obtained. subjects such as corruption in the administrative bodies were new variables entering the literature of economic growth at that stage....

Domestic innovations and technology imports play important roles in boosting relative demand for skilled labor force. These factors are in turn influenced by domestic R&D investments and international trade. Using a translog cost function, this paper studies the effect of technology imports and other factors including output level and physical capital stock on the shares of skilled labor force ...

the aim of this study is to investigate the share of total factor productivity growth (tfpg), labor force growth and physical capital growth on the value added growth of non-oil sector by applying the cob-douglass production function during the third, fourth and fifth development plans before the islamic revolution of iran (1342-1356), and during the first, second, third and forth economic, soc...

corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (mukum, 2008).administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.in other words, there is no country in the world that has note...