... only Unemployment Credit Economic growth ECOWAS Legal system Inflation Domestic private credit to private sector E24 O4O O47 J64 G21 We investigate the impact of private credit expansion and contraction on the rate of unemployment in the Economic Community of West African...

... on both wage and job satisfaction. Job search Informal Treatment effect Machine learning Causal forest C01 C10 C21 J31 J64 Job-seekers are very likely to refer to friends and family to contact potential employers to find a job. If successful, informal job hiring occurs...

... and objective of a study and may not be appropriate for other studies, resulting to inconsistent result. Trade openness Wages Employment VAR Nigeria C3 F6 J21 J64 International trade has been seen as the engine for growth and overall welfare for developed and developing economies...

... I18 J16 J64 Ghana has been bedeviled by unemployment for a long time (e.g. Sackey and Osei, 2006 ; Overå, 2007), a phenomenon that is more pervasive in urban towns than in rural areas (Sackey and Osei, 2006). Although data on unemployment statistics for the country are scanty, estimates...