فهرست مطالب زهره سامان پور

In development literature balanced and unbalanced growth perspectives in the dimensions of district and region are popular views, and decline in poverty and deprivation are known as a reflection of the mentioned view’s strength by the adherents of each view. Accordingly, the most pivotal issue in this study is investigating the impact of industrial development on deprivation rate in Iran’s regions. To measure the level of industrialization of different regions, three criteria of number of industrial firms, industrial employees and industrial production have been used at the interval of 2009-2013 and on the other hand, deprivation rate is evaluated by the number of people and households covered by Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF) in each region and in accordance with the population of those regions. Using panel data econometrics, the results show that industrialization of geographical regions decreases the number of individuals and households covered by IKRF at the mentioned era significantly. Based on the results of investigation, industrial development has provided the conditions for decline of deprivation manifested in reduction of clients of IKRF. In term of policy-making and based on findings of this study, paying attention to balanced growth of industrial sector in Iran’s regions is essential and necessary in order to decrease deprivation.

Industrialization in Iran like many of developing countries has brought numerous advantages and disadvantages. However in best condition, it is not possible to eliminate disadvantages but it is possible to minimize them. Industrial accidents are fundamental disadvantages of industrialization without developing its specific culture. And new researches show that number of these accidents in Iran are much more than global standards. This can be caused by the lack of necessary skills of human resources in industry sector. With such an approach, this study has tried to investigate the impact of skills composition of human resources on industrial accidents in Iranian manufacturing industries. The study has coverd all provinces of Iran. The skills combination was measured by 4 criteria; simple workers, skilled workers, technicians and engineers. And that was evaluated in association with proportion of industrial employees to work-related industrial accidents by using panel data econometrics approach. Unexpectedly, the results of this investigation showed that by increasing the proportion of skilled workers in industrial employees, the rate of work-related accidents has increased whereas as expectated by increasing the proportion of technicians and engineers in industrial employees, rate of work-related accidents has decreased. This indicates the inconsistency between definition of proficiency/skill in industry sector and necessary skills for prevention of work-related accidents. In term of policy making, this finding calls for more attention to skills concerning accident prevention. Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization is in charge of it.