this research work seek to evaluate unemployment and inflation in nigeria from 1986-2011. Undoubtedly, parts of the macroeconomic goals which the government strives to achieve are the maintenance of stable domestic price level and full-employment. Macroeconomic performance is judged by three broad measures- unemployment rate, inflation rate, and the growth rate of output, The problem of inflation in Nigeria was brought about by the oil glut in 1981, which resulted into balance of payment deficits leading to foreign exchange crisis that necessitated various measures of import restrictions, The research work is centered on unemployment and inflation in Nigeria. Its main objective was to ascertain if the trade-off thesis holds in Nigeria. To achieve this, various data on unemployment and inflation were collected from 1986-2011, also other variables such as government expenditure, interest rates, and the gross domestic product were included. These variables were then subjected to multiple regression analysis, using OLS estimator, with unemployment as its dependent variable
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title pagei
Certificationiii
Dedicationiv
Acknowledgementv
Table of contentvi
Abstractxi
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction
11. Background to the study
1.2Statement of problem
1.3Objectives of the study
1.4Research Hypothesis
1 5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.6 Scope of the study
1.7 Limitation of the Study
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 THEORETICAL LITERATURE
2.2. EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
2.3 LIMITATION OF THE PREVIOUS STUDIES
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 MODEL SPECIFICATION
3.2 METHOD OF EVALUATION
3.3. JUSTIFICATION OF THE MODEL
3.4 SOURCES OF DATA
3.5 RESEARCH APPROACH
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS
4.1 PRESENTATION OF REGRESSION RESULT
4.2 RESULT INTERPRETATION
4.3 Policy implication
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION, AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1Summary of findings
5.2 conclusions
5.3 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
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