informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …

is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In … the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its incidence and to a lesser degree its determinants depend on the …

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

these claims at the micro level. In this study, I focus on Nigeria a country that holds 1/5 of Africa’s population. I use … the changes in demand for education in Nigeria and the increased emigration rates from African countries that …

Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension … using survey data from Nigeria between 1996-1999. Both descriptive and econometric analysis are used to test the null … hypothesis that there are no significant regional differences in labor market outcomes in Nigeria. The results are surprising …

significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …

contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …

and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …