Iranian Journal of Economic Research

Estimating and Analyzing the Labour Productivity in Khuzestan's Industry Sector

Authors

Mansour Zerra Nezhad 1
Behrooz Ghanadi 2

1 Associate Pofessor , Department of Economics, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Graduate Student, receptively, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract
This paper aims to estimate labour productivity in Khuzestan's industries during 1971-2001. To this end a generalized Cob-Douglas model is applied in which capital stock, gap between actual and potential output and research cost are independent variables. Since the data on the fist two variables were not available, two methods, i.e., exponential trend of investment and Intriligator method, were applied to generate them. The findings of the research show that labour productivity has direct relationship with capital stock as well as research cost, but indirect relationship with output gap.

Keywords

Labour Productivity
Potential Product
Capital Stock
Khuzestan

  • Receive Date 11 May 2016
  • First Publish Date 11 May 2016

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