javad taherpoor; Farzaneh Sanadian
Abstract
The strategy of using oil income to achieve economic growth and development in rentier economies can have devastating effects on the scientific field in the long-run. Pursuing the strategy of “injecting oil income” ultimately sends signals to players in the scientific field which encourages ...
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The strategy of using oil income to achieve economic growth and development in rentier economies can have devastating effects on the scientific field in the long-run. Pursuing the strategy of “injecting oil income” ultimately sends signals to players in the scientific field which encourages them to follow the path of “expanding low-quality education”. Based on the analytical framework presented in this study, domination of a rentier environment in an economy leads to establishment of a rent-seeking incentive structure. In this situation, on the one hand, the priorities of firms in production sector are changed and reaching some parts of benefits in oil sector of the economy becomes the basis of profit-maximizing of firms and these firms find themselves not dependent on science and knowledge. On the other hand, based on oil income, government finds itself needless of science and knowledge to promote its own financial and managerial capacities. In addition, the government uses the injection of oil income to achieve scientific development, which application of this method makes education system needless of financing through other sectors of the economy. The set of these consequences at last leads the education system towards the path of prioritizing quantity and disregarding quality in its activities. Available data regarding the quantity and quality of efforts in Iranian education system, including number of patents and innovations, number of academic articles and the sources of financing in education system verifies the theoretical framework presented in this paper.
Mohammad Nabi Shahiki Tash; Javad Taherpoor; Ali Nourozi
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In this study, by employing a flexible cost function we calculate the technological change measure and total factor productivity and examine the impact of technology on the combination of input and scale of production in Iranian manufacturing industries. According to the results of technological change ...
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In this study, by employing a flexible cost function we calculate the technological change measure and total factor productivity and examine the impact of technology on the combination of input and scale of production in Iranian manufacturing industries. According to the results of technological change at the average data level, total production cost of industry has decreased by an amount of 0.49 percent during the period 1996-2009. All 23 studied industries have deviation from input technology. In addition, technological change has led to saving in raw materials and to an increase in the use of three inputs of labor, capital, and energy. The technological change is non-neutral and has led to changes in production scale and based on the technology scale bias, technological change has led to a decrease in optimal production scale.