The Influence of Minimum Wage Population and Inflation on Unemployment in Manado City

Manado as the capital city of North Sulawesi Province is not immune from unemployment problems. This problem does not just appear and give a momentary impact but also has an impact on problems that are often sustainable in the long term. Defining the unemployed are those who are in the age of the labor force and are looking for work at the prevailing wage rate. Unemployment is the inability of the workforce to obtain the jobs they need or want. From the results of several articles that have been reviewed it is found that the method used, the use of secondary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics and studies on combining cross-sectional data, the combination of cross-sectional data and time series is called panel data which provides more information and variety. less collinearity between variables, more degrees of freedom and efficiency. Secondary data is in the form of time series, this data is obtained from libraries, websites, journals or from previous research reports. Quantitative analysis method, in which the method is chosen in order to obtain a clear picture of a phenomenon based on the interpretation of the processed model using the panel data analysis method. The results of the discussion of articles that have been reviewed found that the problem of unemployment is a very complex problem experienced by every developing country. From a macroeconomic point of view, unemployment is a major problem both in the short and long term. With the unemployment rate, it can be seen the inequality or gap in the distribution of income received by a society. The essence of this problem stems from the occurrence of discrepancies between variables that affect unemployment with the low level of absorption of existing labor. Based on the causes, unemployment can be divided into three, namely normal/frictional unemployment, cyclical unemployment, structural unemployment, and real wage unemployment. The conclusion is that there is an effect on the minimum wage population and inflation on unemployment. work resulting in .