An empirical analysis of unemployment rate in Malaysia / Nur Amirah Saafee

Unemployment is an important issue to all countries in developing the economy side. Malaysia is one of the country will face the challenge of unemployment. The general study for this paper aims to investigate the factors that influence unemployment rate in Malaysia. In the economic framework, there is several independent variables that will affect the number of unemployment rate which are Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Population (POP), Inflation rate (INF), and Exchange Rate (ER) towards unemployment rate (UN) in Malaysia. This study was used the time series annual data analysis ranging from 1982 to 2015 which are 34 observations through World Bank
Data and Department of Statistic. Then the data were collected before compiled by using E-Views8. The impirical evidence from this research shows that there is a
positive and negative coefficient between the indepe
ndent variables towards dependent variable. Findings from previous research paper mostly may help this
research have been complete that give a lot of information to be as references. The result of this paper may make a proper conclusion for the research pr
oject paper.