Iran's Employment and UnEmployment in the 1380's decade

The labour market Studies in different countries reveal that unemployment, particularly among the youth, women, and university garaduates, is more or less a prevalent problem in different countries, especially in developing countries. Downsizing, technological advanoement and tandency towards capital intensive investments, higher competition among different countries and multinational companies led to extensive labour demand in world scale. In the third and fourth Five Year Plans in Iran it has been emphasized that government should reduce five percent of its staff annually. Some restrictions on government recruitment introduced while higher education system has been Providing training for Salary employment. In other words, the gap between Public sector demand and the market supply has been widening. Experiences of the other countries, such as Germany, Sweden, china, Philipin and Vietnam, in expanding their informal markets, and labour training, and the promotion of self-employement can Provide a fruitful reference framework for Iran. The declinig Presence of the State in demand side for educated labour supply, expansion of the higher education system, increase in women Participation, changes in monetary and fiscal policy and credit rationing in the Postrevolution Iran, all and all, have been carried out while ignoring the labour market Structure. More important, rigidity of the higher-education system for change, Pointed out that there has been no incentive for the labour market to hier new labour force or if it did, it has been so minute that it did not lead to a decisive impact on unemployment rate.