Crime and unemployment in Malaysia: ARDL evidence

• Main Authors: Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Baharom, A.H., Din, Badariah, Muhamad, Suriyani, Ishak, Suryati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2014
• Subjects: HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/15216/1/69-86.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/15216/; http://www.jgd.uum.edu.my/

The purpose of the present study is to determine whether there is long-run relationship between crime rates and unemployment rate in Malaysia for the period 1973 to 2003.The autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing procedure was employed as the main tool to infer cointegration or the long-run r...