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Unemployment and Foreign Direct Investment in Developed Country
Nur Anis Syahirah binti Abdul Wahab
Supervisor: Dr ZairihanbBinti Abdul Halim
Bachelor of Economics (Natural Resources)
School of Social and Economic Development
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a component that contributes to the economy of the
country where it can create job opportunities and will overcome an unemployment issues
in most countries. This study focuses on foreign direct investment and unemployment in
developed countries and this study is conducted to identify the relationship between
foreign direct investment and unemployment rate. Method that applied in this research
is multiple linear regression which involves an education, gross domestic product, inflation
and export as independent variable. This research used a panel data which is 8 years
start from 2008 to 2016 and includes 10 high income countries. This research applied
static panel data as method analysis. The result of this study shows that foreign direct
investment and unemployment rate have a positive relationship.
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