What drives the unemployment rate in Maldives? An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach

• Main Authors: Irushad, Ali, Mohd Thas Thaker, Mohamed Asmy, Mohd Thas Thaker, Hassanudin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Center for Economic Studies, Universitas Islam Indonesia 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/104551/2/104551_What%20drives%20the%20unemployment%20rate%20in%20Maldives.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104551/; https://journal.uii.ac.id/JEP/article/view/27104/15060

Purpose – This paper examines factors that determine the unemployment rate in the Maldives. Methods – This paper uses an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model in capturing long and short-run associations among the chosen variables. It uses some macroeconomic variables, namely unemployment...