Factors that Influence the Rate of Unemployment in Indonesia

Erna A. R. Puspadjuita

International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, 140-147

Abstract: This research was aimed at analyzing the effect of urbanization, industrialization, labor force level, the elasticity of labor force and minimum regional wage rate in Indonesia. The analysis technique used were descriptive and multiple linear regression. The result on ¦Á = 5% shows that the labor force variable was significant to unemployment level in Indonesia. Industrialization shows a positive effect and non-significant to unemployment level, it means that the capability of industrial sector is lower in reducing unemployment compared with agricultural sector and service sector. The elasticity of labor force is negative and non-significant to unemployment sector. The result of regression shows that the elasticity of labor force is non-significant to unemployment level. The variable of minimum regional wage rate shows negative effect and non-significant to unemployment level means that the wage rate is not invisible.

Keywords: unemployment; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijef/article/view/72364/39602 (application/pdf)
http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijef/article/view/72364 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:ijefaa:v:10:y:2018:i:1:p:140-147

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Economics and Finance from Canadian Center of Science and Education Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Canadian Center of Science and Education ().