Fereshteh Hafezi; Mehdi Rahimian; Saeid Gholamrezai
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The main purpose of this survey research is to evaluate the rural youth tendency to employment in agricultural sub-sectors in the Beyranshahr County in the Lorestan province. The statistical population consisted of 15 to 24-year old youth in the Beyranshahr County (N= 1404). Then 181 of them were selected ...
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The main purpose of this survey research is to evaluate the rural youth tendency to employment in agricultural sub-sectors in the Beyranshahr County in the Lorestan province. The statistical population consisted of 15 to 24-year old youth in the Beyranshahr County (N= 1404). Then 181 of them were selected as a statistical sample by using Cochran’s formula. The samples were selected in two stages. The first step is choosing the sample size proportional to the population in every village. Then, the samples that was specified in each village were chosen and the data was collected by using a questionnaire. Questionnaire's reliability and validity were confirmed, respectively through computing Cronbach's alpha coefficient and content validity. Finally, the data was analyzed by the SPSS software. The result showed that youth of the Beyranshahr County have respectively the most and least tendency to employment in horticulture and brokering (purchase and sale) of agricultural products. In addition, the tendency of youth to employment in the horticulture sub-sector such as collecting and processing medicinal plants in the forest and pastures and or industrial processes and packaging them exist more in youth in whose villages such activities are dominant as compared with the youth in whose villages such activities are not dominant.
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Ali Ghasemi Ardahaee; Reza Noubakht; Nayereh Rostami
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Entrepreneurship and sustainable rural employment are the main concerns of rural planners. One of the most basic requirements for this is that young people remain in the rural areas. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to identify individual and structural factors that are effective in keeping young ...
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Entrepreneurship and sustainable rural employment are the main concerns of rural planners. One of the most basic requirements for this is that young people remain in the rural areas. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to identify individual and structural factors that are effective in keeping young people in rural areas. Statistical results of the bivariate and multilevel modeling (HLM) shows that rural youth are not willing to stay in rural regions. One may cite the following individual factors contributing to this lack of interest in staying in rural areas: age, marital status, education, communication with relatives in the city, as well as employment status and job skills. People with higher human capital who have technical skills and building related non-agricultural skills are not interested in staying in rural areas. Moreover, the increased population in the villages and lack of social welfare facilities in village are highly effective in reducing the tendency of young people to stay in the villages.
