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ehsan taheri; Hossein Sadeghi; lotfali agheli; alireza naseri
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Reduction in the access to health care services and spread of disease can have a negative effects on the economic growth and welfare of the community by reducing the labor force participation. Increasing government health expenditures is one of the ways to overcome these problems. However, implementing ...
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Reduction in the access to health care services and spread of disease can have a negative effects on the economic growth and welfare of the community by reducing the labor force participation. Increasing government health expenditures is one of the ways to overcome these problems. However, implementing this policy, along with its positive effects, will have a negative impact on the effective labor supply of other sectors. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate these effects using a computable general equilibrium model based on the 2011 social accounting matrix of Iran. The results showed that illness, reduced welfare and real GDP, but increasing government health expenditures, increased welfare in the short run and long run. Although effects on real GDP depend on the closure of labor market, so that in the situation of immobile labor force of the health sector, it is decreased, but with full labor mobility, it increased. So because of the positive welfare effects of government health expenditures, it is suggested that government still more invest in this sector. Also to reducing the costs and preventing the real GDP reduction it is necessary to provide the ground to increase labor force in the health sector in such a way as to the labor supply of other activities doesn’t decrease.
Hosein Sadeghi; Behrooz Maleki; Abass Asari; Vahid Mahmoudi
Volume 3, Issue 12 , November 2013, , Pages 20-9
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This paper wants to study the relationship between social trust and human capital. Social trust is a necessary condition for human development. Fuzzy method is used. Findings of this study showed that in %68 of the countries, social capital is a necessary condition for human development and coverage ...
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This paper wants to study the relationship between social trust and human capital. Social trust is a necessary condition for human development. Fuzzy method is used. Findings of this study showed that in %68 of the countries, social capital is a necessary condition for human development and coverage index showes that 63% of human capital space is covering by social trust. It also was cleared that the degree of membership in social trust set is associated with a degree of membership in a set of human capital; so, the more the degree of membership in the set of countries with high social trust, the more degree of membership in the set of countries with high human capital.
Mohammad Sokhanvar; Hossein Sadeghi; Abbas Assari; Kazem Yavari; Nader Mehregan
Volume 1, Issue 4 , December 2012, , Pages 182-145
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The analysis of efficiency trend by applying window Data Envelopment Analysis and research about environmental and structural forces affecting on efficiency in electricity distribution companies after vertical decomposition and ownership change in Iran is very important object. On the basis of circuit ...
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The analysis of efficiency trend by applying window Data Envelopment Analysis and research about environmental and structural forces affecting on efficiency in electricity distribution companies after vertical decomposition and ownership change in Iran is very important object. On the basis of circuit density, companies decomposed in two groups with low circuit density (group1) and high circuit density (group2). On the basis of research results, window efficiency mean of first and second groups under the variable and constant returns to scale with respect to metafrontier have had increasing and decreasing trend respectively. But second group efficiency mean is higher than first group efficiency mean into whole windows. Shiraz city, Golestan and Mazandaran electricity distribution companies in second group have had unsatisfactory performance with respect to metafrontier and group frontier in comparison to other companies. High circuit density companies have had fewer gaps between group performance and potential better performance or metafrontier. Network load factor increasing would be led to lower efficiency and transformator load factor increasing would be led to higher efficiency. Privatization has insignificant effect on efficiency in the short-run but has significant effect in the long-run.
