Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy

Investment in human capital in relation to global world is to achieve an optimum return in terms of a gainful employment, productivity and high standard of living. This paper uses autoregressive distributed lag model to determine the cointegration, long run and short run elasticities among human c...

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Main Authors: Olabisi Olabode, Eric, Sakiru Adebola, Solarin
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Language:English
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description Investment in human capital in relation to global world is to achieve an optimum return in terms of a gainful employment, productivity and high standard of living. This paper uses autoregressive distributed lag model to determine the cointegration, long run and short run elasticities among human capital, economic growth, economic globalization and foreign direct investment (FDI), for the period 1980-2011. The empirical results reveal that there is a long run relationship among the variables tested in this study. Also, economic growth and FDI show a positive impact on human capital and economic globalization indicates a negative impact on human capital in Nigeria.
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spelling unimas-106342016-10-21T02:46:53Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10634/ Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy Olabisi Olabode, Eric Sakiru Adebola, Solarin HC Economic History and Conditions Investment in human capital in relation to global world is to achieve an optimum return in terms of a gainful employment, productivity and high standard of living. This paper uses autoregressive distributed lag model to determine the cointegration, long run and short run elasticities among human capital, economic growth, economic globalization and foreign direct investment (FDI), for the period 1980-2011. The empirical results reveal that there is a long run relationship among the variables tested in this study. Also, economic growth and FDI show a positive impact on human capital and economic globalization indicates a negative impact on human capital in Nigeria. Econjournals 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10634/1/NO%2067%20Impact%20of%20economic%20globalization%20on%20human%20capital%20%28abstract%29.pdf Olabisi Olabode, Eric and Sakiru Adebola, Solarin (2015) Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 5 (3). pp. 786-789. ISSN 2146-4138 https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84937910012&origin=inward&txGid=0
spellingShingle HC Economic History and Conditions
Olabisi Olabode, Eric
Sakiru Adebola, Solarin
Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
title Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
title_full Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
title_fullStr Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
title_short Impact of Economic Globalization on Human Capital: Evidence from Nigerian Economy
title_sort impact of economic globalization on human capital: evidence from nigerian economy
topic HC Economic History and Conditions
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10634/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10634/1/NO%2067%20Impact%20of%20economic%20globalization%20on%20human%20capital%20%28abstract%29.pdf