Does gender inequality retard productivity in Nigeria?: a search for evidence

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2013-09

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Central Bank of Nigeria, Research Department.

Abstract

The paper adopted the bounds test and autoregressive distributed lag approach to evaluate the impact of gender inequality in education on real productivity in Nigeria using quarterly data from 1985 to 2011. Empirical evidence to establish the rejection of the null hypothesis of no cointegration among the variables was provided .

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Gender inequality, Bounds test, Autoregressive distributed lag, Productivity

Citation

Golit, P.D. and Adesanya, O. (2013). Does gender inequality retard productivity in Nigeria?: a search for evidence . Economic and Financial Review, 51 (3). 41 - 55.