The Influence of Regional Revenue towards Economic Growth, Employment and Social Welfare in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan Province

Local revenue, GDP and human development index in Palangka Raya growing faster than the labor absorption, and considering the importance of the role of local revenue as a major source of revenue in the local financial budget components, the authors wanted to examine The Influence of Local Revenue Towards Economic Growth, Employment and Social Welfare in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province. These conditions encourage a study to determine and analyze in depth the effect of PAD on economic growth, employment and social welfare in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province. Thus conducted a quantitative study using path analysis with SPSS software tools. Optimizing the the path analysis is used time series data for the period 2001 to 2011 in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province. Hypothesis testing results gained the facts that: (1) Local Revenue influential negative not significant towards economic growth in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province (2) Regional Revenue influential not-significant with the positive direction towards employment in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province; (3) Economic growth influential negative not-significant towards employment in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province; (4) Economic growth infuential negative not-significant towards social welfare in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province; (5) labor absorption influential positive not significant towards social welfare in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province. Keywords : Regional Revenue, Economic Growth, Employment and Social Welfar