An Analysis of the Causes of the Tendency Towards Informal Economy in Border Cities with Emphasis on Coolbury Employment (Case study: Sardasht City)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Afshin Mottaghi ¹
• Mahtab Amraie ²
• arash ghorbani sepehr ³

¹ Associate professor of political geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

² Ph.D. student of Geography and Urban Planning, Zanjan University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.

³ Ph.D. student of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30495/jupm.2022.4105

Abstract

Introduction: One of the most important informal occupations in the border cities of Iran is Culbery employment. At present, due to the economic conditions in the city of Sardasht, Colberry is increasing as the job of the majority of the poor people of this city. The present study investigates and analyzes the economic reasons for the tendency of the people of Sardasht to work in Culbery.
Method: The type of research is applied and the research method is descriptive-analytical. Library methods, electronic resources and field studies, interviews and researcher-made questionnaires were used to collect information and data. A total of 160 Colbranes from Sardasht were selected as the research sample based on snowball sampling. Findings were analyzed using SPSS 26 software using percentage and frequency and chi-square test and reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha (value 0.70).
Results: The results of the chi-square test indicate that there is a difference between the reason for employment with Culbery and the variables; There is no significant relationship between gender, place of birth, reason for migrating to the city, number of family members, level of education, type of goods mainly transported, monthly expenses, way of getting acquainted and entering the Culbery job and income fluctuations of the Culbery job in different seasons. But between the cause of colibri tendency and age, the previous job is also variable; There is a significant relationship between marital status, monthly salary, second source of income and apart from Culbery, future job, job security, job satisfaction and duration of Culbery employment with the reasons for inclination to Culbery.
Conclusion: The results of multivariate linear regression show that 35% of the dependent variable changes are due to independent variables that have been entered into the final model and the test value to determine the significance of the effect of independent variables on the causes of Culbery employment tendency 0.000 With a significance level of 0.95.

Keywords

• Informal Working
• border city
• Coolbury
• Sardasht

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