This research uses the statistical data from 1974 to 2014 in Iran to explore the effect of the total labor productivity as well as the productivity of skilled and unskilled labor on the wage level. | A study on the effect of productivity on the wage level with emphasis on the productivity of skilled and unskilled labor Accounting 4 2018 93 100 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac A study on the effect of productivity on the wage level with emphasis on the productivity of skilled and unskilled labor Hossein Akbari Farda Sayyed Abdolmajid Jalaeeb and Seyed Bagher Fazayel Ardakanic a Assistant Professor Department of Economics Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman Iran bProfessor Department of Economics Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman Iran c PhD Student in Economics Department of Economics Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Kerman Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The productivity of labor and wages are two important variables in the market. Identification Received November 1 2017 of the relationship between the labor and the wages can help policymakers and employers make Received in revised format important decisions about workers wages. This research uses the statistical data from 1974 to November 11 2017 2014 in Iran to explore the effect of the total labor productivity as well as the productivity of Accepted January 7 2018 Available online skilled and unskilled labor on the wage level. The results of the research in the long-run indicate January 8 2018 that for the case of skilled and unskilled labor productivity skilled labor productivity Keywords maintained a negative effect on the wage level and the unskilled labor productivity had a Wages positive effect on the wage level. In addition the total labor productivity had a positive impact Labor productivity on the wage level the results also indicate that the level of education had a positive impact on Skilled labor productivity the wage level and the impact of government size on the level of wage was negative and Unskilled labor productivity statistically insignificant. Self-explanatory patterns with distributive .
