Institute for Management and Planning studies 3115-7092 3115-7106 10 4 2005 7 1 3 39 FA Mahmood Motavaseli motvaseli@ut.ac.ir Y Mohamad Ghasemi N Evaluating the effect of logal regulations with the use of economic analyses is regarded as one of the most important grounds of positive analyses applications of the Law and Economic Approach. This paper evaluates one of the crucial issues mentioned in the 2nd chapter of Labor Law i.e. labor agreement cancellation through firing workers. Economic analysis of legal regulations is normally started by Coase Theorem but considering the presence of different interpretations on the basis of this theorem it is impossible to offer a viewpoint on the efficiency of the Labor Low regulations. Considering the obscurity of theoretical patterns, the size and directions of job security in employment should be empirically expressed. Calculating the Job Security (JS) indicator, which particularly focuses on labor fire expenditures, shows that after the ratification of the present Labor Law, this indicator has approximately doubled in comparison to the previous law (1958). Estimating the effect of the mentioned regulations on populations, various subgroups through a probit model specification indicates that the establishment of job security regulations in the present method is against the young age group employment and the employment of the low-skill group. http://eprj.ir/article-1-96-en.html http://eprj.ir/article-1-96-en.pdf

Institute for Management and Planning studies 3115-7092 3115-7106 10 4 2005 7 1 Governments Annual Budget Impact on Added Value and Potential Employment of Economic Activities 41 71 FA Esfandyar Jahangard jahangard@atu.ac.ir Y Hasan Varmazyar varmazyar@gmail.com N The relationship between added value of economic activities and the Governments budget along with the impact of this budget on the employment of economic activities are among the issues that economic decision-makers and analysts assume to be crucial. Classification of statistical data has not yet allowed experts and decision-makers to evaluate the Governments role in production and employment in different economic activities in Iran. This paper first classifies Irans Governments budget according to International Standard Industrial Classification using 2000 input-output table. Then it analyses the relation between added value and the Governments budget on the basis of L.R. Klein (1983) and Yulia Zaytseva (2000). Finally, the Impact of Governments budget on employment in various economic sectors is surveyed according to studies done by Konstadionos and Shrestha (1991). http://eprj.ir/article-1-97-en.html http://eprj.ir/article-1-97-en.pdf

Institute for Management and Planning studies 3115-7092 3115-7106 10 4 2005 7 1 Measurement and Trend Analysis of Productivity in Irans Various Economic Sectors 73 110 FA Alireza Amini Y This paper tries to measure and analyze the trend of indicators of labor and capital productivity as well as Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in the economic sectors introduced in the 4th five-year-development plan for the period within 1971-2003. According to the results, the productivity indicator throughout Iran has increased 0/9% on average annually and the highest growth has been in the telecommunication sector whereas the greatest decrease is related to the commerce-restaurants-hotels sector. The capital productivity indicator in the period in the aggregate level economy has decreased 5% on average per year while the largest growth has been in the commerce-restaurants-hotels sector. Contrary to improvements in the indicators of human capital and technology indicators, TFP indicator has increased during the period 0.04% on average annually which in turn is not indicative of optimum economic achievements in the area of utilizing resources. The results of the study shows that the best sector from the viewpoint of optimum use of the resources has been the telecommunication sector and the poorest one is that of the commerce-restaurants-hotels sector. The share of TFP in the growth of production in industry, construction, telecommunication, water and electricity power sectors as well as that of services offered by the institutions of financial, monetary, insurance, estate, vocational-specialized, transporting and warehousing affairs has been in the range between 10% and 84% out of which the least is the share of industry sector and the greatest is that of telecommunication. TFP has been negative in other sectors. It indicates that their performance has been poor in making optimum use of resources. The extent of urgency to review the previous policies and make new policies to meet the goals of improving productivity in the economic sectors. http://eprj.ir/article-1-98-en.html http://eprj.ir/article-1-98-en.pdf