Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis (Jan 2011)

The impact of foreign direct investment on unemployment in Japan

  • Milan Palát

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11118/actaun201159070261
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59, no. 7
pp. 261 – 266

Abstract

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The flow of foreign direct investment is one of the indicators of economic interconnection with the rest of the world. The paper is aimed at evaluating of inward FDI flows into Japanese economy and unemployment development. For many decades, Japan has attracted considerably lower levels of inward FDI compared to other developed countries of the world. Also the rate of unemployment in Japan was relatively low which is caused by a specific attitude of the active population of Japan towards employment issues. Methods of regression and correlation analysis (including testing the statistical significance) were used in the analysis of FDI and unemployment. The correlation has been approved between FDI and the rate of unemployment.

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