A social work study to measure the effect of unemployment


Faezeh Taghipour, Gholamreza Tajbakhsh, Allahyar Arabmomeni and Mohammad Reza Iravani


Unemployment is believed as one of most important issues in today's economy around the world. The recent economic turmoil in European countries, for instance, has created some troubles such as increase in rate of depression, divorce, etc. In this paper, we present a social study work in one of regions of Iran. The proposed study of this paper designs and distributes a questionnaire among 80 experts who live in the region and tries to understand whether there is a correlation between unemployment and rubbery, immigration, drug addiction and non-value jobs. The survey uses Pearson correlation to test four hypotheses and the results indicate that although there is no strong correlation between unemployment and rubbery and immigration but there is a strong evidence to believe that unemployment can increase drug addiction and non-value added jobs.


DOI: j.msl.2012.10.013

Keywords: Unemployment ,Drug addiction ,Rubbery

How to cite this paper:

Taghipour, F., Tajbakhsh, G., Arabmomeni, A & Iravani, M. (2012). A social work study to measure the effect of unemployment.Management Science Letters, 2(8), 2753-2756.


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