Determinants of University Unemployment in the Egyptian Economy (1976-2014)

The research aims to study the problem of university graduates unemployment in Egypt in terms of definition, trends and determinants. As well as a standard model for estimating the determinants of unemployment among university graduates in Egypt through the use of the Bounds Testing method and the(ARDL) to estimate longterm and shortterm relationships based on time series data Annually covering the period (19762014), as well as the economic and statistical assessment of those capabilities. The results of the empirical study showed that the growth rate of real GDP has a positive effect on the unemployment rate of university graduates, as well as the total enrollment rates in university education and the rate of inflation. The proportion of immigrants with university qualifications to total migrants and the annual growth rate of real wages both affect Negatively  affect the unemployment rate of university graduates.