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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Rea Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>Rea Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3009-4496</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3009-4496</issn><publisher>
      	<publisher-name>Rea Press</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.22105/ywsn0j93</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Learning curve, Workforce learning, Manufacturing industries, Panel data.</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Extracting the Workforce Learning Curve for Selected Iranian Manufacturing Industries</article-title><subtitle>Extracting the Workforce Learning Curve for Selected Iranian Manufacturing Industries</subtitle></title-group>
      <contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Samadi Varankesh </surname>
		<given-names>Somayeh </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Payam Noor University, Shimiranat, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
	</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname> Asadi</surname>
		<given-names>Ali Asghar</given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Payam Noor University, Shimiranat, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
	</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Saedi</surname>
		<given-names>Omid </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Economic and Financial Researcher, Iran.</aff>
	</contrib></contrib-group>		
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2024 Rea Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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      <related-article related-article-type="companion" vol="2" page="e235" id="RA1" ext-link-type="pmc">
			<article-title>Extracting the Workforce Learning Curve for Selected Iranian Manufacturing Industries</article-title>
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			In industrial economics, the learning curve illustrates that production costs decrease continuously as the number of production units increases due to an improvement in the learning rate as production increases. The objective of this research is to explore the concept of the workforce learning curve in the Iranian manufacturing industry from 1996 to 2015. The study uses panel data econometric methods, specifically the Fixed Effects method, to extract the learning curve model for six industrial activities within Iran's economy to achieve this. According to the econometric model results, it has been confirmed that the learning curve for the selected industries follows a quadratic model that is inverted U-shaped. Therefore, focusing on increasing production and utilizing economies of scale in these sub-sectors is advisable.
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