OPEC
Hoda Zobeiri; Mani Motameni; Atefeh Raeisi
Abstract
Natural resource rents theoretically can stimulate entrepreneurship as a production inputs. In other hands, natural resource rents can change intensives of potential entrepreneurs, reduce opportunity driven entrepreneurship and increase necessity driven entrepreneurship. However, necessity driven entrepreneurship ...
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Natural resource rents theoretically can stimulate entrepreneurship as a production inputs. In other hands, natural resource rents can change intensives of potential entrepreneurs, reduce opportunity driven entrepreneurship and increase necessity driven entrepreneurship. However, necessity driven entrepreneurship is not an unproductive activity, but its impact on economic growth and development is very different from entrepreneurial activities that are based on innovative ideas and technologies which determine the productive capabilities of an economy. This paper has examined the effect of natural resource rents on opportunity driven entrepreneurship and necessity driven entrepreneurship in 45 selected countries during 2008-2017 using GMM. The results show that natural resource rents have significant negative impact on opportunity entrepreneurship while it has significant positive impact on necessity entrepreneurship. Based on the results, oil rents managements along with control of corruption and improve institutional framework are necessary to increase opportunity entrepreneurship in oil rich countries.
Saeed Karimi; Younes Nademi; Hoda Zobeiri
Volume 5, Issue 18 , March 2015, , Pages 64-51
Abstract
Unemployment is one of the most important challenges of Iranian economy that affects the society and economic performance. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of government size on unemployment rate in Iranian economy. By using the model of Christopoulos, Loizides & Tsionas (2005), ...
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Unemployment is one of the most important challenges of Iranian economy that affects the society and economic performance. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of government size on unemployment rate in Iranian economy. By using the model of Christopoulos, Loizides & Tsionas (2005), the relationship between government size and unemployment has been investigated during 1974-2012. The results of threshold model indicate that when the government size is less than 0.2484, increasing of government size has a significant negative impact on unemployment but after the mentioned threshold value, due to crowding out effect of government intervence, government size has a significant positive impact on unemployment. Also, the results of estimation show that inflation has a significant negative impact on unemployment that confirms Philips curve in Iranian economy.
