An empirical study on factors that can contribute to the total unemployment / Halimatusaadiah Saufi

• Main Author: Saufi, Halimatusaadiah
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Unemployment
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93521/1/93521.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93521/

This paper is a preliminary exploration of factors that determinant the total unemployment that contributes for both developed and developing countries. The objectives of this study are to find the factors that may lead to the unemployment rate, to indicate the relationship between total unemployment relating to number of new enterprises, total FDI, total population and total and lastly is to observe the most relevant factors that influencing the total unemployment among the countries. In accordance to this research paper, it shows that three out of four are significant and all of these variables contributing a lot to this research and the most elastic variable is total GDP. Researcher was use stata 10.1 as the primary method to analyze all variables and obtain the accurate result. As a whole, researcher can conclude that most of these variables influencing total unemployment. For further studies, an extension can be done, for instance add up some more variables in order to know another factor that can contribute to total unemployment.