Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Investigation of the effect of ports performances on employment in Iran’s coastal provinces

Document Type : Original Manuscript

Authors
Fatimah Hosseinpour 1
Amin Tabaeh Izady 2
Jafar Ghasemi Varnamkhasti 3
1 departmentof economocs, faculty of economic and managment , Khoramshahr Marine Science and Technology University, Khoramshahr, Iran
2 Khoramshahr, Iran
3 Economics,faculty of economic and managment, Khoramshahr Marine Science and Technology University, Khoramshahr, Iran
10.22113/jmst.2017.50674
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the effect of port performance on employment in the provinces of Iran. To do this, statistical data for period 2005 to 2013 in 30 provinces (seven coastal provinces and 23 inland provinces) is used. In this study, two different methods have been used to achieve the goal. First, by mean equality statistical test it is shown that the unemployment rate in coastal provinces is slightly lower than unemployment rates in the inland provinces. In the second method, we use a panel data regression analysis and also use two estimation methods consist of least squares methods (fixed effects model) and generalized method of moments (GMM). Results of regression analysis show that non-oil performance of ports had significant and positive effect on employment in coastal provinces, but this effect is low and negligible. Other results show that interest rate, wage, prices level and output had positive effects on coastal provinces’ employment but oil performance of ports had not any significant effect on employment.
Keywords
port
employment
non-oil performance
oil performance

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 27 February 2017
  • Revise Date 26 September 2017
  • Accept Date 02 October 2017
  • Publish Date 23 August 2019