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Factors That Affecting Graduate Unemployment Rate in Asia
Aiman bin Rashid
Supervisor: Dr. Zairihan bt Abdul Halim
Bachelor of Economics (Natural Resources)
School of Social and Economic Development
This study was conducted to identify the relationship between the dependent variables is
unemployment rate and tertiary education and independent variables are gross domestic
product (GDP), inflation, foreign direct investment inflow, foreign direct investment
outflow, GDP outflow and inflow. The study has used 14 Asian countries from 1997 to
2016, and this panel data has been estimated using the 'Fixed Effect Model' method. The
results show that GDP, inflation, foreign direct investment outflow and average GDP
inflow are not closely related to the unemployment rate. Furthermore, for foreign direct
investment inflows with the average GDP outflow has been positively correlated and
closely related to the unemployment rate variables. GDP, incoming foreign direct
investment and average GDP showed positive correlation to tertiary education variables.
While inflation, foreign direct investment outflow and the average GDP outflow have
shown a negative correlation to the study for a period of 20 years. In conclusion, this
study is also to understand the factors that have influenced the unemployment rate and
the effects of unemployment to graduates.
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