ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI TINGKAT KEMISKINAN (STUDI KASUS 35 KABUPATEN/KOTA DI JAWA TENGAH TAHUN 2003-2007

Abstract

Poverty is one of the biggest economic which is complex and multidimentional. Because of that, it is important in finding solution to eliminate or at least to reduce poverty. This study examines the impact of economic growth, minimum wages, education, and unemployment in poverty from 2003 to 2007. Method which is used in this study is data panel with fixed effect model approach and secondary data. Dummy areas is used to catch poverty variations in 35 regencies in Central Java. Adjusted R2 is high enough at 0.982677. While result of this study shows that the number of economic growth, minimum wages, education, and unemployment have significant influence to poverty, so the development of those has to be considered to eliminate poverty.