“…Many studies in the current literature, particularly those from outside Nigeria (Arratibel et al, 2007;Min & Xiaolin, 2011;Tripathi, 2013;Biswas & Saha, 2014;Aoyagi & Ganelli, 2015;Georgescu & Herman, 2019;Aliyu, 2019;Lajčin, 2021;Semjén, Le, & Hermann, 2018) focused on how economic growth is influenced by employment. Biswas and Saha (2014), for instance, investigated how economic growth impacted by employment using aggregated data.…”