Supply Side Studies That Affect Educated Unemployed In Central Java, Indonesia

Abstract

The long term demographic transition impacts on the explosion of productive age population number and even the demographic trend shows an increasing productive age population growth pattern. There is a worry that the productive age populations not be absorbed in job opportunity will be unemployed. Productive age unemployment will impact on the high educated unemployment rate. This research would analyze demographic and social factors underlying educated unemployment in Central Java in 2018 from supply side only. The data used was raw data on the result of National Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS) conducted by BPS-Statistics of Central Java Province on February with 3375 respondents being the sample. The methods employed were descriptive and binary logistic regression analyses. The result of research showed that age, family member number, sex, and relationship to household head, marital status, residence area, and on-the-job training variables simultaneously affected the predisposition of educated work force to be unemployed. Meanwhile, partially family member number and residence area variables did not affect an individual’s predisposition to be educated unemployed