Saeed Isazadeh; Ezatollah Abbasian; Ahmad zia Noori
Abstract
Afghanistan is a country having the most refugees in the world. The existence of a long common border and linguistic, religious and cultural similarities between Afghanistan and Iran has created a situation in which the vast majority of Afghan immigrants (43 %) stay in the Iran. After taking up the process ...
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Afghanistan is a country having the most refugees in the world. The existence of a long common border and linguistic, religious and cultural similarities between Afghanistan and Iran has created a situation in which the vast majority of Afghan immigrants (43 %) stay in the Iran. After taking up the process of the voluntary return of Afghan refugees with the UNHCR program, 6.2 million people have returned to the home country since 2002. This study is going to use questionnaire data to examine the impact of immigration to Iran on the education and skills of Afghan labor force during the period of 2002-2017. The research results indicate that immigration to Iran has a positive and significant effect on education and skills of Afghan labor force. Besides, the acquired skills, the level of immigrant literacy, the opportunities for education and skills, the type of profession and the duration of their stay in Iran have a significant effect on the employment rate of returning persons. Also, there are significant relationships between: 1) the type of immigrant profession and income, 2) the legality of the immigration process and the opportunities for education and skills in Iran. It also shows that immigration for migrant households is profitable and they are satisfied with immigration to Iran. Hence their satisfaction leads to immigrate again.
Ezatollah Abbasian; Mahdi Moradpour Oladi; Vahid Abbasiuon
Volume 12, Issue 36 , October 2008, , Pages 135-152
Abstract
This paper examines the influence of macroeconomicvariables on stock market equity valuesin Tehran Stock Exchange Market. We use the Tehran Stock Exchange Market all share price index to represent the stock market and (a) moneysupply, (b) interest rate, (c) consumer price index (as a measure of inflation), ...
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This paper examines the influence of macroeconomicvariables on stock market equity valuesin Tehran Stock Exchange Market. We use the Tehran Stock Exchange Market all share price index to represent the stock market and (a) moneysupply, (b) interest rate, (c) consumer price index (as a measure of inflation), (d) exchangerate and (e) trade balance as macroeconomic variables. We use the data quarterly data for the above variables for the 20 quarterly periods from Farvardin 1377 to Esfand 1384 employinga battery of tests, which include unit roots,cointegration, vector error correction models (VECM), impulse response functions (IRFs) and variancedecompositions (VDCs). These tests examineboth long-run and short-run relationships between the stockmarket index and the economic variables.The VECM analyses provides some support for the argument that the lagged values of macroeconomic variableshave a significant influence on the stock market. Both VDC and IRF analyses reveal thatshocks to economic variables explained onlya minority of the forecast variance error of the market index and the effects do not persist for verylong.