The Effect of Fiscal Policies on Labor Demand in Iran

Subject Areas : Financial and Economic Modelling

Alireza  mahmoodzadeh ¹ (Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)
Mino  Amini Milani ² (Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad Sadegh  Alipour ³ (Iran Institute of Statistics, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2022-12-18 Accepted : 2023-03-01 Published : 2023-12-01

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Taxes, Labor Demand, Government Expenditures, Fiscal Policy,

Abstract :

The labor market is one of the main markets in the national economy and the equilibrium of the labor market is one of the main concerns of policymakers in every country. Theoretical foundations and empirical studies show that labor demand is the main factor in creating employment and equilibrium in the labor market. This article evaluates the effect of fiscal policy on labor demand in Iran from 1976-2018. During this period, the government has implemented employment-generating projects, tax and insurance exemptions via annual development programs and budgets, and encouraged investment in areas with high unemployment rates. we examined the effect of current government expenditures, government development expenditures, and taxes to study the effect of government fiscal policies on labor demand. In this article, we estimate the dynamic function of labor demand using the ARDL technique. According to the theoretical foundations and empirical studies in the specified function, labor demand is a function of intermittent values and independent variables of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), real wages, capital stock, current government expenditures, government development expenditures, tax revenues, and dummy variables of imposed war and the UN Security Council sanction. The results showed that fiscal policy has not had a positive effect on labor demand in the Iranian labor market in the short and long term.

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