ANALISIS PENYERAPAN TENAGA KERJA PADA INDUSTRI MEBEL DI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA TAHUN 1984-2005

The growth and development in industrialization are industrial processes in producing goods and services in increasing the people's prosperity and life's standard. The industrialization process is able to raise the opportunity of new work fields, and as a result, it will increase the income and strengthen the people's buying ability. This research aimed at identifying the factors affecting the absorption of work force in fumiture industries in the special province of Yogyakarta year 1984-2005. In this study, the data used were the secondary data which were gained from the central statistic board with 22 numbers of data during the year of 1984-2005. By using the linear regression analysis, the evidence was found that the amount of the absorption of work force in the furniture industries in the special province of Yogyakarta was influenced by three factors: production volume, capital, and the number of production utilities. This was supported by the value of determination coefficient (R2 ) which was really high, that is, 98.9%. While the rest, 1.1%, was explained by other factors outside the research model. In addition,