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Effect of Public Expenditure in Construction and Transportation sectors on Employment in Nigeria

This paper examined public expenditure and employment in Nigeria from 1980 to 2017. The study was induced by the insufficient federal government budgetary allocations to some critical sectors such as transport and construction sectors that tend to prompt the decay in the construction sector. To this end, the objectives of the study are to evaluate the effect of public expenditure in construction and transport sectors on employment rate in Nigeria. In doing this time series data were collected from CBN bulletin from 1980-2017 on variables such as employment rate, public expenditure on construct…