Analysis of Several Factors that Influence Poverty Levels in Bali Province with Unemployment as an Intervening Variable

The objectives of this study are 1) to analyze the effect of education level, minimum wage, population, investment, economic growth on unemployment rate in Bali Province, 2) to analyze the effect of education level, minimum wage, population, investment, economic growth on poverty in Bali Province, 3) to analyze how the effect of unemployment rate mediates education level, minimum wage, population, investment, economic growth on poverty rate in Bali Province. To analyze how the effect of the unemployment rate mediates the level of education, minimum wage, population, investment, economic growth on the poverty rate in Bali Province. The analysis technique used in this research is descriptive analysis and path analysis. The data used is panel data consisting of a combination of time series data with cross section with 108 observations obtained through secondary data. The result of this research shows that 1) population, and economic growth have a significant negative effect on the unemployment rate in Bali Province, 2) education level, investment has a positive but insignificant effect on the unemployment rate in Bali Province. 3) minimum wage has a negative but insignificant effect on the unemployment rate in Bali Province. 4) education level has a significant negative effect on the poverty rate in Bali Province. 5) minimum wage, economic growth, and unemployment rate have a significant positive effect on the poverty rate 6) investment has a positive but insignificant effect on the poverty rate in Bali Province, 7) the unemployment rate is not an intervening variable or mediates the level of education, minimum wage, population, investment and economic growth. 8) population has a negative and insignificant effect on the poverty rate in Bali Province.