An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri

This research is to identify the factors that influence unemployment rate and to determine the relationship between growth rate, population growth rate, foreign direct investment, exchange rate with unemployment. Unemployment rate in Malaysia started fluctuating from 1982 to 2015. Economic recession...

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Main Author: Mohd Nazri, Nur Fathiha
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling my-uitm-ir.924552024-03-15T07:34:44Z An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri 2018 Mohd Nazri, Nur Fathiha Unemployment This research is to identify the factors that influence unemployment rate and to determine the relationship between growth rate, population growth rate, foreign direct investment, exchange rate with unemployment. Unemployment rate in Malaysia started fluctuating from 1982 to 2015. Economic recession becomes labor supply has exceeded labor demand. This study has used Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Method for determining the results and using the time series data from period of 1982 to 2015 (34 years) has been done. The data collected from data stream, index mundi and global economic. The finding of this paper indicates that positive and insignificant relationship between population growth rate with unemployment rate while negative and significant relationship between gross domestic product growth rate and foreign direct investment. Exchange rate has found to be negative and insignificant with unemployment rate in Malaysia. For further studies, more variable can be including in this topic which is inflation, literacy rate, government spending and trade openness. This will help to get different result and give more explanation for the determinants factor for Malaysian unemployment. 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/92455/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/92455/1/92455.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Business Management Mohamad, Zuraida
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topic Unemployment
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Mohd Nazri, Nur Fathiha
An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri
description This research is to identify the factors that influence unemployment rate and to determine the relationship between growth rate, population growth rate, foreign direct investment, exchange rate with unemployment. Unemployment rate in Malaysia started fluctuating from 1982 to 2015. Economic recession becomes labor supply has exceeded labor demand. This study has used Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Method for determining the results and using the time series data from period of 1982 to 2015 (34 years) has been done. The data collected from data stream, index mundi and global economic. The finding of this paper indicates that positive and insignificant relationship between population growth rate with unemployment rate while negative and significant relationship between gross domestic product growth rate and foreign direct investment. Exchange rate has found to be negative and insignificant with unemployment rate in Malaysia. For further studies, more variable can be including in this topic which is inflation, literacy rate, government spending and trade openness. This will help to get different result and give more explanation for the determinants factor for Malaysian unemployment.
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title An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri
title_short An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri
title_full An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri
title_fullStr An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri
title_full_unstemmed An analysis of the unemployment rate in Malaysia: a time series data approach / Nur Fathiha Mohd Nazri
title_sort analysis of the unemployment rate in malaysia: a time series data approach / nur fathiha mohd nazri
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