The Analysis of Poverty and Unemployment in West Sumatra

摘要

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.