IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rmdjxx/v17y2025i1p129-137.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An economic analysis of the impact of labor productivity on the dynamics of total wages in Iraq for the period 1994–2021

Author

Listed:
  • Rafid F. Mohammed

Abstract

The study employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methodology to analyze the relationship between labor productivity and wages in Iraq from 1994 to 2021. The findings revealed a statistically weak relationship between productivity and wages, indicating that increases in productivity were not accompanied by significant wage growth. Long-term deviations (0.19) showed that changes in wages were not driven by changes in productivity, which was attributed to the influence of external legislative factors. The study highlighted that employers continued to hire workers at relatively low wages despite increased productivity, reflecting an imbalance between productivity and wages. It recommended revisiting labor laws and legislation related to workers’ rights and wages to achieve a balance between workers’ needs and employers’ requirements and to enhance the value of workers in the market by better aligning wages with productivity levels.

Suggested Citation

  • Rafid F. Mohammed, 2025. "An economic analysis of the impact of labor productivity on the dynamics of total wages in Iraq for the period 1994–2021," Middle East Development Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(1), pages 129-137, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:17:y:2025:i:1:p:129-137
    DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2025.2482633
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17938120.2025.2482633
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17938120.2025.2482633?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:17:y:2025:i:1:p:129-137. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rmdj .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.