Employment Growth, Service Sector, and Manufacturing Value-Added in Sub-Saharan Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Ojo, Segun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-30T09:45:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-30T09:45:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study examined the interaction among employment growth, service sector, and manufacturing value-added in sub-Sahara Africa. The study utilized secondary data spanning 1990 to 2019. The data was analyzed using a panel vector error correction model (PVECM). The result reveals that long-run causality runs from manufacturing value-added and service sector to employment growth. The result shows that the manufacturing sector and service sector generate employment in the economy. It further reveals that there is no long-run causality running from employment growth and service sector to manufacturing value-added in SSA. Finally, the analysis reveals that there is long-run causality running from manufacturing value-added and employment growth to the service sector. The direction of causality reveals in this study shows that the service sector is crowding out the manufacturing sector in SSA. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/2125 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Ife Journal of Economics and Finance | en_US |
| dc.subject | Service sector | en_US |
| dc.subject | Manufacturing value-added | en_US |
| dc.subject | Employment growth | en_US |
| dc.subject | Deindustrialization | en_US |
| dc.subject | Causality | en_US |
| dc.title | Employment Growth, Service Sector, and Manufacturing Value-Added in Sub-Saharan Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |