The Analysis of Poverty and Unemployment in West Sumatra

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200305.070How to use a DOI?

Keywords

poverty, unemployment, two stages least square

Abstract

The study aims to explain the relationship between poverty and unemployment districts in West Sumatra. In addition, to explain the effect of health toward poverty, education toward poverty, education toward unemployment and the amount of unemployment people at District in West Sumatera. The study used data panel (cross section and time series) the which consists of 19 districts in West Sumatra during the period 2011 to 2017. The analysis used a simultaneous equations model of two stages least square. The results of the study found that unemployment and education had a negative and significant effect on poverty, then health had a positive and significant influence on poverty among regencies in West Sumatra, then poverty had a negative and significant effect on unemployment, then education, and the population had a positive and significant influence on unemployment among districts in West Sumatra.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dicky Rustam
AU  - Hasdi Aimon
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/10
TI  - The Analysis of Poverty and Unemployment in West Sumatra
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Padang International Conference on Education, Economics, Business and Accounting (PICEEBA-2 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 210
EP  - 218
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200305.070
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200305.070
ID  - Rustam2020
ER  -