A Determinants of Job Creation by Small Enterprises of Iran

During the recent two decades, unemployment has been one of the important challenges in Iran. The growth of population had been estimated 4 percent from 1976 to 1986, that formed a baby boom in Iran. From 1997, children born in baby boom decade have reached thir employment age. Due to the increase of uneinployment in recent years and the limitations of job creation in the country, unemployment probably will remain one of the important challenges in the next decade. Therefore, ii is necessary to attend to the unemployment problem as one of the most important causes of social threats. On the other hand, we cannot ignore the role of small and medium enterprises in solving unemployment problem in undeveloped and some developed countries. However, statistics shows the weak role of the Iranian small and medium enterprises in creating job opportunities in recent years. In Iran, small and medium enterprises encounter several problems in performing their role in job creation. In this paper, we investigated some determinants of job creation in such enterprises.