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Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the impact of GVC participation on employment in Nigeria between 1991Q1 and 2015Q4. Specifically, we examined the GVC participation employment impacts along different sectors of the economy which include the agricultural sector, industrial sector and services sector. To implement our study, we used Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares. Our findings showed that only backward GVC participation contributes positively to total employment. At sectoral levels, industrial sector employment benefited from the total, forward and backward GVC participation while agricultural sector employment only benefits in total and forward GVC participation. However, we did not find evidence that services sector employment benefits from any GVC participation. Giving our findings, we recommended that government should encourage greater participation in GVC activities through appropriate policy formulation and implementation. Also, the requisite skills needed by workers in different sectors or industries of the economy must be developed and harnessed to be better off when participating in GVC activities.