جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « بازار کار نویسندگان » در نشریات گروه « اقتصاد »

The oldest regulatory policy in the cultural sector is the Authors’ Protection (Copyright) Law whose development and implementation dates back to more than fifty years ago. The economic impacts of this policy, however, have rarely been the subject of research. The conceptual framework of this study has been based on key copyright economics research dealing with copyrights as economic incentives (Watt, 2013, Towse, 2001). The research method follows a quantitative approach and a survey design. The sample included 91 literary writers which were randomly selected from among 586 writers. Categorization, coding, and data analysis were performed using SPSS 23 software program, and the techniques employed for analyzing the data were multiple linear regression and non-parametric correlation. The findings reveal that copyright earnings are very low among Iranian literary writers, constituting a maximum of 4% of their average creative income. Multiple-job-holding increases as the copyright income decreases. The result of the multiple linear regression showed that the variable “breach of contracts” has a direct and negative effect on the copyright income. The model also shows that if the “breach of contract,” were to decrease one more level, the copyright income would increase by around 124 percent. The variable “number of books translated to other languages” showed a direct positive effect on the copyright income, as with each translated book the copyright income would rise by 175 percent. Overall, it can be concluded that although the connection between variables and the direction of influence have been in alignment with the policymaker’s intention, the influence has been insignificant.

According to the statistics provided by the Book House of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, around 5,000 authors published their books of fiction or novel from 2017 to 2019. Although literary writers constitute a central position in the creative class, no comprehensive study has been conducted on their income and labor market characteristics yet. In cultural economics, authors are placed in the category of artists and their labor market characteristics are considered almost identical. Therefore, the studies on artists' labor markets can be employed to identify authors. The theoretical framework is taken from previous research on artistic labor markets and the data have been collected through in-depth interviews with 91 authors in Iran. Multiple regression analysis is carried out to estimate the income penalty function for authors. The findings show that the average income penalty of Iranian writers is 72%, compared to the average income of alternative jobs, and that they annually lose 108 million Toman (i. e., foregone income) because they ignore better-paid alternative occupations to continue being literary authors. The resulting equation proves that the foregone income increases as authors write in more genres, as the number of literary award jury memberships rises, and as they gain higher academic degrees. Foregone income also grows as authors’ experience increases until 24 years, after which increasing the experience results in lower foregone income.