This research examined the effect of internal and external social capital on the business
performance of female-owned small-and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in the Nigerian …

Summary Motivation The Sustainable Development Goals targets include decent work for all
by 2030 but progress in sub‐Saharan Africa has been slow. Over the past five years, the …

Promoting decent work and sustainable economic growth within the framework of
Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG 8) entails addressing gender inequality, the …

We employ dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation techniques which include Dynamic
Fixed Effects, Mean Group, and Pooled Mean Group estimators to explore the underground …

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 …

Economics has long shunned qualitative research methods, such as interviews, focus
groups and observational studies, in preference for quantitative methods, such as empirical …

This paper investigates the development of the youth informal economy in Lithuania in 2004–
2020. Specific youth-tailored multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) model has been …

We investigate whether rising income disparity contributes to the proliferation of shadow
economic activities in Nigeria. The study uses data from 1991 to 2018 and adopts the Auto …

Despite its economic relevance, the informal sector in Nigeria is plagued by occupational
health and safety (ohs) anomalies. This study assessed ohs conditions among informal …

Objective: Out of pocket expenditure is the primary means of financing healthcare in middle
and low-income countries. The 2021 government health expenditure in Nigeria at 4.52 …