Date of Graduation
5-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Accounting
Advisor/Mentor
Yan, Claire
Committee Member/Reader
Trivitt, Julie
Abstract
This thesis studies the subsequent labor market outcomes of college graduates during an economic recession in Spain over the years 2000-2012. I use data on undergraduate enrollment, unemployment, national income, and educational spend from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics, the CIA World Fact Book, Spain’s Ministry of Education, and World Bank to run regression analyses and the Granger Causality Test. I find that university enrollment and unemployment rate are positively correlated. Regression results show that for every one percent increase in unemployment, enrollment increases by approximately 7,429 students.
Citation
Clarke, M. A. (2016). "How the Unemployment Rate in Spain affects University Enrollment". Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/econuht/16