Measuring and analyzing the impact of foreign direct investment in alleviating the severity of unemployment in Jordan for the period (1990-2022)

Abstract

The relationship between foreign direct investment and unemployment is one of the most controversial relationships in economic literature, as there is no consensus on the nature of this relationship, and it varies from one country to another. The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of the relationship between foreign direct investment and unemployment in Jordan for the period (1990-2022), to find out whether foreign direct investment helps in reducing the unemployment problem or not. There is an inverse relationship between the development of foreign direct investment and unemployment for the period (1990-2022) in Jordan. The study consisted of two aspects: the first is the theoretical aspect of foreign direct investment and unemployment, and ended with analyzing the relationship between foreign direct investment and unemployment and its sources in Jordan, while the second standard aspect was concerned with estimating the research model, which began with describing the model, testing the unit root and joint integration and using the (ARDL) model, and ended with discussing the standard results for Jordan.