Unemployment and the macroeconomics of Ethiopia

dc.contributor.authorSisay ,Endashaw
dc.contributor.authorWassie, Yilkal
dc.contributor.authorAlemu, Minyahil
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-23T11:28:00Z
dc.date.available2021-01-23T11:28:00Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.departmentİstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractUnemployment has long been there for (especially) developing economies being the major development challenge. The cost of unemployment transmits in a couple of channels; of which the opportunity costs arising from lost production and the resultant social disorders are of immediate ledges. While appreciating them all, the government of Ethiopia (GoE) conveyed various schemes towards reducing unemployment to (at least the recommended) minimum rate. Despite developments in various efforts to that end, unemployment remained pronounceable policy challenge in Ethiopia. It, therefore, calls for enhanced intervention towards supporting the process of controlling unemployment in the country. The present study is principally aimed to identify those macroeconomic policy variables that are important in explaining the dynamics of unemployment in Ethiopia. We employed the annual time series data set for the period serially running from 1984 to 2018. The individual variables were all subjected to the augmented Dickey Fuller unit root tests and the mixed order of integration has been confirmed. As a result, the auto-regressive Distributed Lag model approach was employed for cointegration issues; and various possible cointegrating roots among the variables entered the unemployment model were suggested too. Our regression results reveal that, the population growth rate, economic growth rate, inflation rate, foreign direct investment, and the external debt variables are all important predictors of unemployment both in long and the short run periods. A positive impulse moves from inflation to (cyclical) unemployment in Ethiopia, whereby contrasting the Phillips hypothesis. Economic and social development policies need not be treated in isolation. Any successful monetary policy action in targeting the threshold inflation rate is supposed to be a crucial approach. Besides, enhancing productive and more labor-oriented investments serve the best long run solution to that end, too.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage49en_US
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage40en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11467/4370
dc.identifier.volume6en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherİstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesien_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Commerce and Financeen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Başka Kurum Yazarıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectARDLen_US
dc.subjectEthiopiaen_US
dc.subjectMacroeconomicsen_US
dc.subjectPhilips Curveen_US
dc.subjectUnemploymenten_US
dc.titleUnemployment and the macroeconomics of Ethiopiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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