An Assessment of the Investment Climate in Nigeria : The Challenges of Nigeria’s Private Sector
This report presents employment in Nigeria from a worker perspective as well as from a firm perspective. Using recent household data, the report complements the report ‘more, and more productive, jobs for Nigeria: a profile of work and workers’ (Wo...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/641551481520950285/Main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25767 |
| Summary: | This report presents employment in
Nigeria from a worker perspective as well as from a firm
perspective. Using recent household data, the report
complements the report ‘more, and more productive, jobs for
Nigeria: a profile of work and workers’ (World Bank 2015)
and provides an overview of employment opportunities in
Nigeria from a labor force perspective. This report also
intends to investigate the job agenda from a firm
perspective and represents a first attempt to better
understand the drivers of economic diversification, firm
growth, and employment in Nigeria. The report draws on two
different data sources: the General Household Survey (GHS)
and the Enterprise Survey. The GHS provides data on the
contribution of wage work to the Nigerian economy and its
share of total employment. The GHS module on non-farm
household enterprise provides information on the dynamics of
micro and small enterprises, as well as the constraints they
face. The Enterprise Survey, conducted in Nigeria from April
2014 to February 2015, was used to analyze the dynamics and
constraints of the formal sector in Nigeria. The survey
sample, which was limited to formally established companies
with five or more employees, was composed of firms across
nineteen states engaged in manufacturing, construction, or
retail and wholesale trade. The results are presented in
four regional groups: Lagos; Kano and Kaduna states; other
southern states (Abia, Abuja, Anambra, Cross River, Enugu,
Ogun, and Oyo); and other northern states (Gombe, Jigawa,
Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto, and
Zamfara). A module on innovation was also administered to a
portion of the survey sample. Details on the Enterprise
Survey are provided in annex two. |
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