• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.277-288
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• 2022

Purpose - This study analyzed the determinants of local unemployment rate in Korea using panel data from 16 metropolitan cities and provinces from 2000 to 2018. Design/methodology/approach - We use a dynamic spatial panel model that considers characteristics of the regional unemployment rate such as the common factors effect, spatial dependence, and serial correlations. Findings - The local unemployment rate is affected by the past and present values of the national unemployment rate. And it is significantly affected by the past local unemployment rate and the past neighboring unemployment rate because spatial dependence and serial correlations are clearly present. In addition, when the industrial structure diversity and labor productivity were high, the regional unemployment rate decreased, and when the education level was high, the regional unemployment rate increased. Research implications or Originality - In order to reduce regional unemployment rate, it is necessary to plan and establish regional customized industrial structure policies under the stance of diversification rather than specializing the regional industrial structure and accompany improvement of the quality of education with the number of years of education. In addition, the redistribution of labor from low labor productivity sectors to high labor productivity sectors through technology development will help to reduce the local unemployment rate.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.301-335
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• 2014

In this paper, we consider a small open economy under the New Keynesian model with unemployment of Gal$\acute{i}$ (2011a, b) to discuss the design of the monetary policy. Our findings can be summarized in three parts. First, even with the existence of unemployment, the optimal policy is to minimize variance of domestic price inflation, wage inflation, and the output gap when both domestic price and wage are sticky. Second, stabilizing unemployment rate is important in reducing the welfare loss incurred by both technology and labor supply shocks. Therefore, introducing the unemployment rate as an another argument into the Taylor-rule type interest rate rule will be welfare-enhancing. Lastly, controlling CPI inflation is the best option when the policy is not allowed to respond to unemployment rate. Once the unemployment rate is controlled, however, stabilizing power of CPI inflation-based Taylor rule is diminished.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aims to determine the effect of broadband access, education level, population numbers, and investment on the unemployment rate in Indonesia. Research design, data, and methodology: This study uses panel data from 34 provinces from 2016 to 2019. The analysis uses the fixed-effect model for panel data with the Feasible Generalized Least Square (FGLS) estimation method. Results: Broadband access has a negative and significant effect on the unemployment rate. Mean years of school, population, and foreign direct investment also have a negative and significant impact on the unemployment rate. In contrast, the domestic direct investment variable has a positive and significant effect. Conclusion: The availability of broadband access in an area allows easier and faster access to information. The ease of access to such information can affect producing goods and services, encouraging innovation and employment growth, and reducing the unemployment rate. This research recommends that the government intensify the Indonesia Broadband Plan policy to accelerate the development and equitable distribution of broadband access in all regions of Indonesia.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2003

Objectives : We investigated the effects of the economic growth and unemployment rates on the suicide rate in Korea, between 1983 and 2000, using a time-series regression model. The purpose of this study was to model and test the magnitude of the rate of suicide, with the Korean unemployment rate and GDP. Methods : Using suicide rate per 100,000 Koreans and the unemployment rates between 1983 and 2000, as published by the Korea National Statistical Office, and the rate of fluctuation of the Korean GDP (Gross Domestic Product), as provided by the Bank of Korea, as an index of the economic growth rate, a time-series regression analysis, with a first-order autoregressive regression model, was peformed. Results : An 81.5% of the variability in the suicide rate was explained by GDP, and 82.6% Of that was explained by the unemployment rate. It was also observed that the GDP negatively correlated with the suicide rate, while the unemployment and suicide rates were positively correlated. For subjects aged over 20, both the GDP and unemployment rate were found to be a significant factors in explaining suicide rates, with coefficients of determination of 86.5 and 87.9%, respectively. For subjects aged under 20, however, only the GDP was found to be a significant factor in explaning suicide rates (the coefficient of determination is 38.4%). Conclusion : It was found that the suicide rate was closely related to the National's economic status of Korea, which is similar to the results found in studies in other countries. We expected, therefore, that this study could be used as the basis for further suicide-related studies.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.119-124
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• 2023

본 연구는 우리나라에서 부동산시장의 상승과 하락이 실업률에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 2013년 1월부터 2023년 2월까지의 월별 자료를 대상으로 다중회귀분석 모형으로 분석을 하였으며, 주요한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 부동산 경기와 실업률 간에는 유의한 인과관계가 존재하였다. 즉, 부동산시장의 상승은 실업률의 유의한 하락을 가져오고 부동산시장의 하락은 실업률의 유의한 상승을 가져왔다. 이는 대부분의 선행연구들의 결과와 일치하는 것이다. 둘째, 대출금리 상승은 실업률을 유의하게 하락시키는 것으로 나타나, 금리의 상승은 고용에 호재로 작용하는 것으로 나타났다. 물가 상승은 실업률을 유의하게 상승시키는 것으로 나타나, 물가가 오르면 고용이 유의하게 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 주택건설인허가실적의 증가는 실업률을 유의하게 감소시키는 것으로 나타나, 주택건설인허가가 단기적으로는 고용에는 호재로 작용하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 변수들을 대체하여 강건성 검증을 하여도 분석결과는 크게 달라지지 않았다. 이는 부동산 경기가 실업률에 미치는 영향이 강건하다는 것을 확인해 주는 것이라 할 수 있다. 이상의 분석결과, 우리나라에서 부동산 가격의 상승과 하락이 실업률의 감소와 증가로 이어진다는 것은 부동산 경기의 안정적 운용이 실업률의 안정에도 도움이 될 수 있다는 것을 시사한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.763-769
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• 2021

The relationship between government size and unemployment is an important topic of study in economics. Large public expenditure has been blamed for causing higher unemployment contrary to the belief that it would help in reducing unemployment. More research on the topic, however, needs to be done as the available literature has been based largely on data from developed countries. The present paper examines the existence of the relationship in states of India by using panel data analysis. For more comprehensive study, public expenditure is divided into development, non-development, and aggregate expenditures, while the types of unemployment under consideration are usual status and current weekly status. Indeed, it has been observed that development and non-development expenditures increase both the types of unemployment though the impact of the latter is higher. The findings are important as it implies that a cut in expenditure can be an important fiscal tool to fight unemployment. It was further observed that unemployment was higher among states with a more educated population, which also suggests a revisiting of the education policy in the country. States ruled by left parties have higher unemployment rate. Higher income states as well as states with higher growth rate tend to have lower unemployment rate.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.269-275
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• 2019

This study intended to examine the relationship between inflation and unemployment rate in Indonesia during 1987 to 2018 period. The study applied a quantitative method using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) in order to comprehensively understand the causality between inflation and unemployment rates. The data were collected from various main sources including the World Bank, Central Bank of Indonesia, and Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS). The findings showed that inflation has a one-way relationship toward unemployment in Indonesia and it occurs at the third lag. Impulse Response Function (IRF), shows that the inflation rate are fluctuating in response to the shock of unemployment. The unemployment rate responses to shocks from inflation initially increased until it is eventually diminished. It shows that the shocks caused by the impact of inflation were only in the short term. Further, inflation in the three previous lags will have consequences for the unemployment rate in the year. Lastly, both in the long run and short run, unemployment did not affect inflation rates. These findings suggest that high inflation in Indonesia is determined the rising price of basic commodities and fuel. In addition, most companies in Indonesia applying capital intensive so that employment growth in Indonesia is small.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.69-94
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• 2017

This paper re-examines the impacts an institutional arrangement may have on labour market outcomes such as the employment and unemployment rates. Based on the results from a generalized econometric model, the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, organized labour and active labour market policy have effects on a labour market in line with previous findings. However, taxes on labour and the degree of employment protection are found to affect neither the employment rate nor the unemployment rate. Thus, some findings in this paper validate earlier findings, whereas others do not.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.904-915
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• 2018

We demonstrate how social media content can be used to predict the unemployment rate, a real-world indicator. We present a novel method for predicting the unemployment rate using social media analysis based on natural language processing and statistical modeling. The system collects social media contents including news articles, blogs, and tweets written in Korean, and then extracts data for modeling using part-of-speech tagging and sentiment analysis techniques. The autoregressive integrated moving average with exogenous variables (ARIMAX) and autoregressive with exogenous variables (ARX) models for unemployment rate prediction are fit using the analyzed data. The proposed method quantifies the social moods expressed in social media contents, whereas the existing methods simply present social tendencies. Our model derived a 27.9% improvement in error reduction compared to a Google Index-based model in the mean absolute percentage error metric.

• 산학경영연구
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• 제12권
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• pp.275-301
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• 1999

1997년 말 이후 우리 사회의 으뜸가는 화두는 구조조정과 개혁이며 그 이름 아래 수반되는 여러 고통중의 대표적인 것이 실업문제이다. 최근 들어 경기회복과 함께 실업을 상승세가 둔화되고는 있지만 경기가 회복되어 고성장이 이루어진다. 하더라도 과거와 같은 실업율은 더 이상 유지되기 어려우며 상대적 고실업이 장기간 지속될 것이라는 전망이다. 실업은 대표적인 거시 경제 현상이므로 그 대책이 중앙정부의 주도하에 이루어지는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 실업대책의 구체적인 대상은 지역이라는 점과 정책의 집행이 자치단체를 통하여 이루어질 수밖에 없는 현실을 감안할 때, 적어도 광역자치단체 차원에서 지역의 경제적 특성, 실업의 규모 및 성격 등을 종합적으로 파악하여 보다 효과적이고 탄력적인 실업정책을 추진하는 것이 필요하다. 이러한 시각에서 본 논문은 강원지역의 고용동향과 특징을 통해 강원실업대책에 관한 개괄적인 평가와 제안을 하며 또 장기적인 실업에 대비하여 무엇을 할 것인가에 관한 몇 가지 기본 과제를 제시하는 것을 주요 목적으로 한다.