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Factors Mediating Between Government Expenditure and Unemployment in Nigeria

Received: 16 January 2016     Accepted: 8 February 2016     Published: 18 March 2016
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Abstract

The study seeks to find economic variables mediating between unemployment and government expenditure in Nigeria. The indirect effect was tested using the method of difference of coefficient. the findings shoe that only labour force population and inflation showed evidence of partial mediation, although their mediational (indirect) effect are not statistically significant as the P-values of the test of indirect effect are all greater than the level of significance, 0.05. Further studies are recommended to ascertain factors mediating upon government expenditure and unemployment in Nigeria other than economic variables already studied.

Published in Science Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjams.20160402.14
Page(s) 43-47
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Keywords

Mediation, Government Expenditure, Unemployment, Economic Variables

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    Chike Henry Nwankwo, Amechi Henry Igweze. Factors Mediating Between Government Expenditure and Unemployment in Nigeria. Sci J Appl Math Stat. 2016;4(2):43-47. doi: 10.11648/j.sjams.20160402.14

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  • Department of Statistics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Nigeria

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