Document Type : Research Paper
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Creating new opportunities and utilizing of existing production potentials are the main determinants of demands for labor. In Iran's economy, limitations of markets, excess capacities in some of industries are prevalent. Increases in final demand and capital formations reflects domestic, demand and net exports is the foreign demand for output, and thereby, creation of job opportunities. Making use of a 24 sectors Input-output index (1996) of Iran, this paper ranks the output and employment capacities of Iran's economy. Our developed Indicators consist of, backward and forward linkages, and final demand elasticity's of output and employment.
Findings indicate that, since in the majority of specified sectors, employment elasticity's are less than output elasticity's, growth oriented policies necessarily are not employment creator. Among the specified sectors of the economy, food industries, residential and infrastructural construction, road transportation services, business services and mineral metals are identified as key factors for job opportunities.
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