Study of the two-way Relationship between Health and Labor Productivity in Iran
Subject Areas : medical documentsroya aleemran 1 , seyed ali aleemran 2
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - PH.D in Economics, Department of Economic Development and Planning, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Keywords: Productivity, Health, Health Expenditure, Labor,
Abstract :
Introduction: Increasing the quality of labor is one of the most important factors in improving labor productivity. Also, improving the quality of labor can be achieved through improving the labor health. Accordingly, this study examines the two-way relationship between health and labor productivity in Iran. Methods: This research is doing a causal-analysis by using Toda - Yamamoto and Johansen-Juselius methods over the period of first quarter of 1996 to fourth quarter of 2016 for the country of Iran. Also, the level of significant is 5 percent. Results: There is a two-way relationship between health and labor productivity. Also, one percent increase in privet health expenditure, increases the labor productivity by 0.67 percent. Accordingly one percent increase in the labor productivity lead to 1.48 percent increase in privet health expenditure. Conclusion: Given the significant cross positive impact of health on labor productivity and vice versa, it is recommended that policy makers with increase health, improve labor productivity and also, with increase labor productivity, improve laber health.
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1- Sayfolahi N, Hazeri H. The Effect of Financial Development on Labor Productivity: Co-integration Application in Dynamic Panel Data. Financial Monetary Economics, 2017; 24(13): 252-271. [In Persian]
2- Mehrabian F, Hassani Pour P. Factors Affecting the Efficiency of Human Resources from the Perspective of Prophet Hospital Staff in Rasht, 2014. Journal of Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 2016; 25(99): 43-49. [In Persian]
3- Bahadori M, Teimourzadeh E, Masteri Farahani H. Factors Affecting Human Resources’ Productivity in a Military Health Organization. Journal of Military Medicine, 2013; 15(1): 75-86. [In Persian]
4- Jorjorzadeh A.R, Khari Azad S.H, Basirat M. The relation between hygiene and labor productivity developing contries. Quarterly Journal of Productivity Management, 2016; 10(37): 71-80. [In Persian]
5- Amini A.R, Hejazi Azad Z. An analysis and assessment of health contribution to increasing labor productivity: A case study of Iran. Economic Research, 2007; 9(30): 137-163. [In Persian]
6- Falahi M.A, Jandaghi Meybodi F, Eskandaripoor Z. The impact of human capital dimensions on total factor productivity of production in Iran’s economy. Quarterly Journal of Applied Economics Studies in Iran, 2016; 4(16): 81-106. [In Persian]
7- Nazmul Huq M, Ranjan Howlader S, Kabir M.A. The impact of health on productivity in Bangladesh. Global Journal of Quantitative Science, 2014; 1(2): 24-31.
8- Saha S. Impact of health on productivity growth in India. International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management, 2013; 2(4): 303-312.
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