چكيده لاتين :
Most developing countries try to "reduce production costs" to be
able to increase their exports to the competitive international markets.
The process of economic globalization has winners and losers. Surging
international trade has lowered the share of Iranיs labour-intensive
exports, especially Persian Carpets, in international markets; as the
production costs of its rival countries are lower.
The findings of this research and the results of the survey which
was conducted in Kashan show that rise in international trade has
reduced Iranיs competitiveness in labour intensive exports and the
increased the share of resource based exports.
As, harsh international competition in conquering hand-woven
carpet markets has reduced real wages of carpet-weavers and has
restructured the labour force of the carpet industry in Iran. The middle
income families, who were involved in carpet-weaving for long time,
have left the industry and Afghan immigrant workers increasingly
substitute Iranian middle class weavers. The estimated econometric
model also indicates that by increasing real income, many workers leave
low-paid carpet weaving jobs. So, Iranיs share in international handwoven
carpet markets would be lower, if low-paid women and Afghan
workers were not concentrated in Iranיs hand-woven carpet industry.
