Comparative Analysis of Relative Advantages and Inequality of Employment between Urban Regions of Khorasan Razavi and Urban Regions of Iran

The purpose of this article is comparative–analytic survey of relative advantages and inequality of employment between urban regions of Khorasan Razavi and urban regions of Iran. The main question is that which activities in economic sectors and subsectors of these regions are basic or nonbasic? With attention to geographical different conditions of these regions, relative advantages of those are similar or different? The methodology of this research is a descriptive-analytic approach and in the gathering of data, mainly have used from second data analysis (documentary) method. And also in the stage of data analysis, base economic model, location quotient technic and Williamson and coefficient of variation inequality indexes are used. Research findings indicated that agriculture sector in 70 percent of urban regions of Iran and 82 percent of urban regions of Khorasan Razavi have had relative advantage. In industry sector, relative advantage of urban regions of Iran is upper than urban regions of Khorasan Razavi (%36.7 versus %23.5). But in service sector, relative advantage of urban regions of Khorasan Razavi is upper than urban regions of Iran (%64.7 versus %50). In indeterminate and nonprofess sector, relative advantages of urban regions of Khorasan Razavi is upper than urban regions of Iran (%41 versus %20).dominance of activities in this sector shows that formal sectors in this urban regions don’t have ability to attract the employments. Analysis of inequality of employment also indicated that firstly, total inequality in urban regions of Iran is very more than urban regions of Khorasan Razavi. Secondly, the trend of inequalities between two decades both in urban regions of Iran and urban regions of Khorasan Razavi intensified.