Impact of minimum wage on youth unemployment a case study of East Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMboya, Wesley Wambua
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-07T16:09:13Z
dc.date.available2022-02-07T16:09:13Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionA research proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor Of Business Science In Financial Economics, Strathmore Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study to investigate the impact of minimum wage policies on employment among the youth population in the East African Community. It implemented a panel data analysis with a sample of three countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as the cross sections and uses data from the year 2000 to 2019. The independent variables regressed on the youth employed were: minimum wage, economic growth, investment growth, the country's human development index, inflation and the bank lending rate. The first model found a positive and significant effect from the human development index to the youth employed. The second model, which also included interactions between minimum wage and the other independent variables found positive significant effects from inflation and interactions with inflation and economic growthen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/12618
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherStrathmore Universityen_US
dc.titleImpact of minimum wage on youth unemployment a case study of East Africaen_US
dc.typeUndergraduate Projecten_US
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