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The Effects of Afghan Immigrants on the Iranian Labour Market

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  • Zahra Karimi Moughari

    (Ph. D. in Economics, staff member of Mazandaran University – Iran)

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In 2005 Afghanistan has been the origin country of the largest refugees, by about a quarter of the global refugee population, who were mainly living in Pakistan and Iran. Almost all Afghan labourers are working illegally in Iran and have not work permission. They are unskilled and cheap workers, accepting any low payed job they are offered. Afghan refugees increased the supply of labour force in Iran for more than 2 decades. So wage increase for low skill workers has been very slow, specially in construction work, where Afghan workers have a large share. The results of our research show that Afghan workers have been attracted to the prosperous provinces where the unskilled workers where most wanted. As the workers can move easily in the country, the presence of Afghan workers in Tehran, Isfahan and Khorasan, has not caused higher unemployment rate neither in cities nor in villages of these provinces, however unemployment rate in the country has been raised. If Afghan immigrants leave Iran, unemployment rate will be lower and the wage rate for unskilled workers will rise considerably.

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  • Zahra Karimi Moughari, 2007. "The Effects of Afghan Immigrants on the Iranian Labour Market," Iranian Economic Review (IER), Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran, vol. 12(3), pages 57-84, fall & wi.
    • Handle: RePEc:eut:journl:v:12:y:2007:i:3:p:57
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    1. Ali Hosseini & Brandon Marc Finn & Seyed Aliakbar Sajjadi & Tahereh Mosavei, 2023. "Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 18(2), pages 1073-1097, April.
    2. Phi Hong Su & Hameed Hakimi, 2021. "Securitized reception: revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-190, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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