Impact of Taxes on Unemployment of Pakistan.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v2i4.936Keywords:
Taxes, Unemployment, Labor Force, Pakistan, Linear Regression AnalysisAbstract
This study focuses to find out the impact of taxes on unemployed labor force of Pakistan. Since Pakistan is among the countries which have high unemployment rates, this study is conducted to find whether taxes have an impact on unemployment of Pakistan or not. The independent variable of study includes tax revenues while the dependent variable includes unemployed labor force of Pakistan. To find out this impact, data on both the mentioned variables is collected for the period of 36 years that is from year 1980 to 2016-17. Results from Linear Regression Analysis shows that tax revenues have positive and significant impact on unemployed labor force of Pakistan, which means; with the increase in taxes the unemployment of Pakistan also increases.
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