نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار گروه اقتصاد، دانشکده علوم اداری و اقتصاد، دانشگاه اراک، اراک، ایران
2 استادیار گروه اقتصاد، دانشکده اقتصاد و مدیریت، واحد شیراز، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، شیراز، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
One of the phenomena of the present age is the increase of urban population, which brings with it some advantages and disadvantages. The phenomenon has been much faster in developing countries than in developed ones.The expansion of urbanization in Iran is also happening at a high rate.In this research, we investigate the causality between urbanization and urban-rural income gap in Iran's provinces (1996-2019). According to the cross-sectional correlation test, it was necessary to use Granger causality test in terms of inter-sectional relationship condition. Due to the high efficiency in small samples and the use of Fisher's (1932) meta-analysis, the causality test presented by Emirmahmutoglu & Kose (2011) was used. The results show that at 90% level, the causality of the urbanization rate to the urban-rural income gap is established for nine provinces (Ardebil, Isfahan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Semnan, Golestan, Hormozgan, Kordestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari), but the causality of income disparity urbanization rates are only available for four provinces (Ardebil, khorasan, Bushehr and Hormozgan). The results of the meta-analysis made by Fischer (1932) also indicate non-causality in both directions. No significance of causality from urbanization to urban-rural income gap indicates that the urbanization can not justify the high urban-rural income gap in the provinces of Iran. No significance of causality from urban-rural income gap to urbanization indicates that the reason for the expansion of urbanization indicates that reason for the expansion of urbanization goes beyond the urban-rural income gap, and the difference in the level of facilities in different dimensions and other economic components can be the reasons for migration from urban to rural areas.
Extended Abstract
Introduction
Urban areas are based on non-agricultural production and have complex and dynamic relationships (Ma et al, 2019: 2). In most communities, the standard of living in urban areas is higher than in rural areas. This difference in standard of living is based on various measurement indicators such as average income, consumption, mortality rate, level of health and level of education and is independent of the level of development of countries (Simler & Dudwick, 2010: 7). The attractiveness of urban life, which is due to the extensive facilities in urban areas, has made people inclined to migrate from rural to urban areas. Despite the lower social benefits of immigration than its private benefits (Mazumdar, 1987: 1097). Especially in developing countries, the rural population migrates from rural to urban areas in order to earn more income and, of course, access to educational, health and other welfare facilities. On the other hand, with the transfer of rural population to urban areas, the urban-rural income gap may change. In the early stages of development, inequality between urban and rural incomes is expected to increase as urbanization increases due to the high rate of productivity growth in urban areas; but from one level onwards, the expansion of urbanization reduces the urban-rural income gap (Cali, 2008: 2). Accordingly, a two-way relationship between urbanization and the urban-rural income gap is to be expected. Like most countries, Iran has always had an upward trend in urbanization. During the years 1966 to 2017, the rate of urbanization in Iran has increased more than 1.9 times and now about 75% of the total population lives in urban areas. The purpose of this study is to test the causal relationship between urbanization and urban-rural income gap for the provinces of Iran using data from 1999 to 2019.
Methodology
Emirmahmoud and Kose (2011) have presented a causality panel test for heterogeneous panel data using the meta-analysis presented by Fisher (1932) which allows a general conclusion about the whole sections (in this Study of the provinces). This method is a modified lag augmented VAR (LA-VAR) with meta-analysis proposed by Fisher (1932). Simulations performed in the dependence and non-dependence of cross sections show that this method has high power and efficiency in the case of small N and T (Emirmahmoud and Kose, 2011). Due to the sample size in the present study, this test has been used.
Results and Discussion
The results show that the causality from urbanization rate to urban-rural income gap for 9 provinces (Ardabil, Isfahan, Chaharmahal Bakhtiari, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Kurdistan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Golestan and Hormozgan(; But causality from urban-rural income gap to urbanization established only for four provinces (Ardabil, Khorasan, Bushehr and Hormozgan). The results of the meta-analysis test presented by Fisher (1932) also show that there is no causality on both directions.
Conclusion
No significance of causality from urbanization to urban-rural income gap indicates that the urbanization can not justify the high urban-rural income gap in the provinces of Iran. No significance of causality from urban-rural income gap to urbanization indicates that the reason for the expansion of urbanization indicates that reason for the expansion of urbanization goes beyond the difference in income, and the difference in the level of facilities in different dimensions and other economic components can be the reasons for migration from urban to rural areas.
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