TY - JOUR ID - 81013 TI - Re-examining the Relationship between Changes in Production, Unemployment Rate and Employment Growth in the Iranian Economy JO - Journal of Economic Research (Tahghighat- E- Eghtesadi) JA - JTE LA - en SN - 0039-8969 AU - Dinmohammadi, Mostafa AU - Mohammadi, Leyla AD - Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan AD - Graduated in M.S of Economics, University of Zanjan, Iran, Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 55 IS - 3 SP - 635 EP - 656 KW - employment KW - Iranian Economy KW - Unemployment growth KW - Okun law KW - Unemployment rate DO - 10.22059/jte.2021.81013 N2 - This paper investigates the relationship between the unemployment rate and economic growth (Okan Law) in Iran. Our results show that there is a weak relationship between our variables of interest. Further, over the last two decades, the significant relationship between economic growth and employment growth was lost which was an indicator of an increase in unemployment rate in some years. We also define and estimate the effective unemployment rate to exclude active population from the official unemployment rate. We find that a decrease in the participation rate explains changes in the unemployment rate in comparison with an increase in the economic growth. JEL Classification: C22, j60,O10   UR - https://jte.ut.ac.ir/article_81013.html L1 - https://jte.ut.ac.ir/article_81013_4d0efe3a6ed8eeb16e49607ed6dfba70.pdf ER -