Open AccessThe Influence of Investments and Government Expenditures to Economic Growth and Employment Opportunities in Kutai Kartanegara District
Author(s) -
Rita Ariani,
Siti Amalia,
Syarifah Hudayah
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
devotion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2777-0915
pISSN - 2797-6068
DOI - 10.36418/dev.v3i6.152
Subject(s) - investment (military) , economics , government (linguistics) , christian ministry , variables , causality (physics) , government spending , path analysis (statistics) , labour economics , market economy , welfare , philosophy , linguistics , physics , statistics , theology , mathematics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , politics , political science , computer science , law
The goal to be achieved through this research is to analyze the variables that affect government investment and expenditure on economic growth and employment opportunities in Kutai Kartanegara Regency, using the Path Analysis method. This is a causality study, which analyzes the effect of exogenous variables on endogenous variables. The variables used are investment variables, government spending, economic growth and employment opportunities in Kutai Kartanegara Regency. The data used in this study are secondary time series data from 2010 to 2020 sourced from BPS and the Ministry of Finance. The data that has been collected is then analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively to provide the proposed hypothesis using Path Analysis. The results show that simultaneous research shows that Investment and Government Expenditure have a significant effect on economic growth. Partially, investment has a positive and significant effect on economic growth, government spending has a negative and insignificant effect on economic growth. Investment has a positive and significant effect on Employment Opportunities. Government spending has a negative and insignificant effect on employment opportunities.