Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 23 ISSUE 3
Written by Majid KARIMZADEH, Mohammad Reza SASOULI, Parisa ZAKIAN

The employment of the youth is among the most critical problems in macroeconomic planning and a serious concern for politicians. This research aims to determine the factors underpinning self-employment barriers of the youth in rural areas of Saravan. For this purpose, data on 200 rural youths were collected by using a self-made questionnaire and were subjected to exploratory factor analysis. Based on the findings, the main impediments of self-employment among the rural youth in the study site included economic-educational, infrastructural, personality, and support factors whereas economic-educational and infrastructural factors were the most significant factors.

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