Correlation between globalization and employment in rural communities of less developing countries case study: Rural communities of Shirvan County (Northern Khorasan, Iran)

摘要

During the past decades, Globalization has been linked to neoliberalism in the economic sphere, but neoliberal reform, as a result of transition to a model of expanding market, has not been promising. This article aims to study the correlation betweenglobalization and employment in rural communities of Shirvan county. The research method used in this research is causal - ex-post facto, correlational type. The data collection tools used in this research is survey. The statistical population is legalguardians of families, aged 50 or more in 8 sample villages which has been chosen between 154 villages with utilizing multi staged sampling methods. In this research the change in rural employment has been studied in correlation with globalization. The data analysis result in nonparametric chi-square xi 2 test showed the calculated "p" in the test contains the significance level of alpha = 05/0, hence on this level, H0 is failed which means there is a correlation between globalization and decrease in rural employment opportunities.