Thailand Unemployment Regression Model

Abstract

We decided to see if there was a correlation between the unemployment rate and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) from 1975-2015. We discovered that there is an overall negative correlation between the two variables. While this was expected, there is a notable positive correlation during 1979-1981, leading us to believe that this correlation during these years is due to potential slowed economic change. The overall negative correlation shows that, generally speaking, a high SET leads to low unemployment rate and vice versa in Thailand.