Yousof Eisazadeh Roshan; Majid Aghaiee; Sammaneh Ghasemi
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of ICT improvement on the effect of financial intermediaries on economic growth in Iran's provinces. For this purpose, according to the classification of the Information Technology Organization, the provinces are divided into two groups of ...
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of ICT improvement on the effect of financial intermediaries on economic growth in Iran's provinces. For this purpose, according to the classification of the Information Technology Organization, the provinces are divided into two groups of provinces with the development of information and communication technology Higher and lower than average. Then, gather information and data required during two five-year periods 2006-2010, 2011-2015 and in the context of dynamic panel models using estimators GMM , the role of ICT in the effectiveness of financial intermediaries on economic growth in the two groups Provinces were tested and checked. The results of this study indicate that, first; the effect of financial intermediaries on the growth in both periods and in both groups of provinces is negative. Secondly: the level of ICT development reduces the negative effect of financial intermediaries on economic growth. Also, according to the results, the impact of the inflation rate and government size on economic growth in both groups of provinces was negative.
Leila Sadat Zafaranchi; Teymour Mohammadi; Hasan Ta’ee; mahnoosh abdollah milani
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Nowadays explaining the behavior of household members is not considered as a neglected black box, and interactions between household members, can influence household consumption, employment and thus its welfare. Applying unitary model, the goal of this research is to estimate and study labor supply functions ...
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Nowadays explaining the behavior of household members is not considered as a neglected black box, and interactions between household members, can influence household consumption, employment and thus its welfare. Applying unitary model, the goal of this research is to estimate and study labor supply functions of dual-earner couples who have non-labor income, using Iranian rural-urban families' cost-expenditure data in year 2013. Supposing wage variable is endogenous, the estimation procedure is based on generalized method of moments. Our findings show that in the pattern of married women's labor supply, inverse of Mill's ratio is negative and statistically significant. So, computing this variable by Heckman's Two Step Model results in consistency of results. The elasticity of own wage labor supply of both couples is positive and statistically significant. From this point of view, the couple's labor supply curve, in studied sample, has standard shape. Studying cross wage elasticity, shows that couples' leisure time are complementary. In line with theoretical base, a rise in non-labor income has negative and statistically significant effect on couples' labor supply hours.