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Effects of Government Expenditure on Employment Generation: Evidence from Nigeria

This study empirically examined the effect of government expenditure on employment generation in Nigeria between 1988 and 2022. The study proxied employment generation by total employment while the proxies of government expenditure adopted are government expenditure on agriculture, government expenditure on education, government expenditure on health and government expenditure on construction. Time series data utilized were sourced from National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin. The study adopted Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) tech…