ICT, employment and labor productivity in Nigeria: an ARDL bound testing approach

Benedicta, Yakubu Hawa and Lacheheb, Zakaria (2022) ICT, employment and labor productivity in Nigeria: an ARDL bound testing approach. International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting Finance and Management Sciences, 12 (4). pp. 88-101. ISSN 2225-8329

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Abstract

This study investigates the link between ICT, employment on labor productivity Nigeria in the time span of 31 years from 1990 to 2020. The Autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) is applied for ICT, employment-productivity nexus in the short and long run. Short run results indicate that in Nigeria ICT has positively increases labor productivity, while employment have a significant negative impact on worker productivity. The results also depict, in the long run ICT such as computer hardware and communication equipment positively and significantly impact productivity rate. ICT contributes around 0.32% in the long run on labor productivity. While employment shows higher negative and significant impact on labor productivity with about 15%. The higher employment rate is associated with lower productivity of workers in Nigeria.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ICT, Employment, Labor Productivity, Nigeria.
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory > HB131 Methodology.Mathematical economics. Quantitative methods H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory > HB3711 Business cycles. Economic fluctuations
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences > Department of Economics
Depositing User:	Mr ZAKARIA LACHEHEB
Date Deposited:	29 Dec 2022 15:55
Last Modified:	29 Dec 2022 15:58
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/102402

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