AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA
Journal Title: Asian Economic and Financial Review - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 10
Abstract
Financial sector development has been identified by financial economists as a veritable way of empowering the poor thereby paving the way for enabling them to become employed and possibly serve as economic agents of change. This study empirically investigates the relationship between financial sector development and unemployment in Nigeria. A time series data was generated from 1980 to 2011 period. Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bound Testing technique for cointegration was applied to estimate the long run relationship. The study found that there has been persistent unemployment in Nigeria, while formal credit allocation in rural areas has both short run and long run effect of reducing unemployment. Also found in this study is that expansionary monetary measures did not fuel inflation significantly. The study therefore recommends that monetary authority should strengthen and deepen financial services industry, particularly, Deposit Money Banks, to provide necessary financial support to the teeming unemployed youth in the country.
Authors and Affiliations
Haruna Mohammed Aliero| Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria, Saifullahi Sani Ibrahim| Department of Economics & Development Studies, Faculty of Arts, Management & Social Sciences, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Nigeria, Mukhtar Shuaibu| Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria
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