Key Factors Affecting Unemployment in the Arab World

This paper aims to study the factors that determine unemployment in the Arab world. The study the panel regression method for the time series period from 2000 to 2016. The study the impact of many variables on unemployment such as macroeconomics variables, variables, labour market variables and besides studying the impact of economic and the financial crisis of 2008. The results show that economic freedom has negative significant relationships with total unemployment, the male and female unemployment as . The impact of 2008 financial crisis on total unemployment appeared to have no significant on total unemployment.