Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2011, 59(7), 261-266 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201159070261

The impact of foreign direct investment on unemployment in Japan

Milan Palát
Ústav ekonomie, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika

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.

Keywords: inward FDI, unemployment, Japan, correlation
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Results given in this paper are part of a research programme No. 6215648904 "Czech economics in the process of integration and globalization and the development of an agrarian sector and the sector of services under new conditions of the European integrated market".

Received: July 28, 2011; Published: January 26, 2014  Show citation

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Palát, M. (2011). The impact of foreign direct investment on unemployment in Japan. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 59(7), 261-266. doi: 10.11118/actaun201159070261
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