[HTML][HTML] Investigating the relationship between changes in oil prices and unemployment rate in Nigeria: linear and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag …

IA Raifu, A Aminu, AO Folawewo - Future Business Journal, 2020 - Springer
The increasing unemployment in Nigeria has motivated several empirical studies on the
causes of the problem in the country. However, attention has not been paid to the …

The effect of financial development on unemployment in emerging market countries

IA Raifu, JA Afolabi - Global Journal of Emerging Market …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the effect of financial development on unemployment in 19 emerging
market countries, considering their age groups and gender dichotomy. The data covers the …

[HTML][HTML] Trade openness and unemployment in selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) Countries

D Gonese, K Sibanda, P Ngonisa - Economies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The relationship between trade openness and unemployment in Southern African
Development Community (SADC) countries remains an area of significant interest and …

Labour force participation and unemployment rate: does discouraged worker effect hypothesis or unemployment invariance hypothesis hold in Africa?

IA Raifu, OM Adeboje - African Journal of Economic and …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the existence of discouraged worker effect
hypothesis and unemployment invariance hypothesis in Africa, including its five regional …

Testing Okun's law at sectoral level: evidence from Nigeria

IA Raifu - International Journal of Development Issues, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Researchers have long been interested in testing the validity of Okun's law due to
its macroeconomic policy implications. However, most of the studies have focused on testing …

Macroeconomic determinants of unemployment in the East African community

I Mukisa, S Nathan, EWN Bulime - Tanzanian Economic Review, 2020 - ter.udsm.ac.tz
Due to the increasing concern regarding the unemployment problem in the East African
Community (EAC), this study examines the macroeconomic determinants of unemployment …

Macroeconomic determinants of unemployment in Africa: A panel data analysis approach

K Tsaurai - Acta Universitatis Danubius. Œconomica, 2020 - ceeol.com
The study explored the macroeconomic determinants of unemployment in Africa using panel
data analysis (fixed effects, random effects, pooled ordinary least squares, dynamic …

An analysis on the economic factors affecting the unemployment rate in the Philippines from 1993-2018

AAM Caligagan, RR Ching… - Journal of Economics …, 2022 - al-kindipublisher.com
The study aims to determine the factors affecting the unemployment rate from 1993-2018
using the OLS estimators. With 26 observations, the research utilized six independent …

Government expenditure and unemployment nexus in Nigeria: Does institutional quality matter?

IA Raifu, A Aminu, JA Afolabi… - Journal of Public …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the role of institutional quality in the government expenditure‐
unemployment nexus in Nigeria using different components of government expenditures …

Agricultural financing and unemployment rate in Nigeria: A cointegration approach

RR Adegboyega - Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Economics and …, 2020 - sciendo.com
In Nigeria, the level of agricultural productivity and farmers' income have been affected by
inadequate financing, which invariably discourages job creation and increases …