Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i2.245
A. Iriabije, U. Effiong, N. Inyang
This study utilized data from the first quarter of 2010 to the fourth quarter of 2021 to explore how volatility in the capital market can influence the real sector of the Nigerian economy. With the use of the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) approach, we realized that there is no volatility clustering in the Nigerian market capitalization given that the estimate of lagged value of residual is negative and significant. Also, the decay of the response function on a quarterly basis being 0.3054 is quite low and is symptomatic of response functions to shock dying at a faster pace. Therefore, a new shock in the Nigerian capital market it will have impact on the market capitalization for a short period making the market less predictable. This makes the Nigerian capital market to be efficient since the market is not easily predictable. The VAR result revealed that the market capitalization put forth a positive and significant influence on economic growth; with the impulse response function indicating that economic growth responded positively to shocks in market capitalization. The paper concludes that the capital market needs be streamlined in order to avoid volatility clustering in the future, in order to maintain the efficiency of the market.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i2.239
Emmanuel Edoja Achor, Alhassan A Yusufu, E. Joseph
The study was an investigation of teachers’ attitude and metacognitive awareness as determinants of their Perceived Professional Competence in Social Studies among post primary schools in Kogi, Nigeria. The study adopted correlational survey research design. The population comprised 3,957 Upper Basic Social Studies teachers from 1937 Universal Basic Education schools in Kogi East for 2019/2020 academic session with a sample of 980. The three instruments used are Social Studies Teachers’ Competency Scale (SSTCS), Social Studies Teachers’ Attitudinal Disposition (SSTAD) and Teachers’ Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (TMAI) with reliability coefficients of 0.88, 0.76 and 0.75 respectively. From the analysis it was found that teachers’ attitude towards Social Studies F(1,469) = 1.158; p = 0.000 < 0.05 and teachers’ metacognitive awareness F(1,469) = 15.638; p = 0.000 < 0.05 have significant contributions to their Perceived Professional Competence in public secondary schools. It was also found that teachers’ attitude towards Social Studies F(1,507) = 0.920; p = 0.038 < 0.05 and metacognitive awareness F(1,507) = 1.487; p = 0.023 < 0.05 had significant contributions to their Perceived Professional Competence in private secondary schools. Social Studies teachers’ metacognitive awareness and attitude towards Social Studies jointly also contributed significantly to their Perceived Professional Competence in public secondary schools F(2,468) = 8.234; p = 0.000 < 0.05 as well as in private secondary schools F(2,506) = 1.087; p = 0.038 < 0.05. It was recommended among others that the State Ministry of Education should employ only teachers that are professionally qualified and certified to teach Social Studies.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i2.233
Yetunde OM Oladokun, O. O. Alawode
This paper examined employment dynamics and job loss among households in Nigeria at pre Covid-19 and Covid-19 Periods. The Nigeria Covid-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS) was the secondary data used. And analysed using frequency counts, cross tabs and bar charts. At pre Covid-19 period, most households (27.2%) were employed in commerce sector, agricultural sector (23.8%), and personal services, education & health (22.3%). However, during Covid-19 period, almost half (48.7%) of the households, were engaged in agriculture sector and commerce sector (18.3%). During Covid-19, 35.3% of jobs were lost by Nigerian households. Agriculture engaged 200 households at pre Covid-19 period, and rose to 413 during Covid-19, leading to +51.6% change, implying its capability to absorb sudden shocks in households’ employment. Policies to enhance greater participation of households within agriculture sector will help to reduce shock. Federal Government of Nigeria should effectively execute Nigerian Economic Sustainability Plan to achieve employment generation.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.231
Dianjian Wang
Most of the studies on international students’ cross-cultural adaptation focused on their sociocultural and psychological adaptation, few studies have specifically addressed international students’ experiences with academic adaptation. This study examines the academic challenges, influential factors and coping strategies of the Chinese students on an American university campus. The research was based on the responses of 122 Chinese students to a cross-cultural academic adaptation questionnaire and interviews with 14 Chinese students at the same American university. The results show that the main academic challenges that Chinese students had were English language proficiency, American university classroom culture and policies, different learning strategies and ways of thinking, and academic writing. Both male students and female students had difficulties in cross-cultural academic adaptation, with no statistical significant gender difference in cross-cultural academic adaptation; graduate students outperformed undergraduates in cross-cultural academic adaptation; length of stay in U.S was positively correlated with Chinese students’ cross-cultural adaptation. Specific coping strategies were also identified.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.229
Ofonime Moses Akpan, U. Effiong, I. Ukere
In this study, the effect of treasury bills on private sector credit in Nigeria using annual data from 1981 to 2018 was examined. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the impact of treasury bills and treasury bill rate on private credit. Treasury bills was disaggregated into its various components and used as explanatory variables along with other essential macroeconomic variables. The study was conducted in the light of the crowding out effect hypothesis. The behavior of variables was captured in an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. The result of the estimated model shows that treasury bills held by commercial banks, treasury bills held by the public and treasury bill rate has significant negative effect on credit to private sector, showing that treasury bills have a crowding out effect on private sector credit. It is recommended that treasury bill rate should be set to align with other rate of return on short term financial asset in the financial system to allow for fair competition between public sector and private sector debt instrument and thus limit the crowding out effect and that the issuing of treasury bills should be justified with the existence of excess liquidity in the financial system.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.226
Todd J. Barry
This brief review discussion raises additional regulatory ideas to those offered by 2017 Nobel Prize winning economist Richard Thaler, and philosophically and pragmatically argues that his winning of the award was more political than economic, especially in terms of the legislation offered that followed. The article then uses work from other economists, such as Coase, and Friedman, and Arrow, to theorize that in total there are at least four different categories of regulation currently identified. And, humans have yet to invent or recognize all possible avenues for using “libertarian paternalism,” Thaler’s neologism for social regulation. The article offers a number of real world, contemporary examples falling under such a philosophical umbrella, while discussing their possible benefits and short-comings. The paper overall argues that human society on the whole has been slow to create more solutions for unwanted or incentivized economic behavior, in the application of such philosophical theories to policies by regulators.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-06DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.212
S. Z. Achor, L. I. Zaria, Emmanuel Edoja Achor
The study investigated the impact of metacognitive awareness on Basic Eight students’ performance in Social Studies in Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses were addressed in the study. The study adopted correlational survey research design. The population consisted of 3,957 Upper Basic Eight students that offer Social Studies (male=2,500, females= 1,457) from 150 co-educational secondary schools. A sample size of 250 Basic Eight Social Studies students was used for the study. Two instruments: Social Studies Performance Test (SOSPT) and Students Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (SMAI) aided data collection. The coefficient of reliability for SOSPT was 0.87, and that of SMAI was 0.73. The data collected were analyzed using regression analysis to answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found among others that there was significant impact of metacognitive awareness on Basic Eight students’ mean performance scores in Social Studies. There was significant impact of metacognitive awareness on Basic Eight male and also female students’ mean performance scores in Social Studies. The study recommends among others that School authorities and administrators should make provision for activities that stimulate and expose students to metacognitive awareness which could improve their performance in content taught in Social Studies. Curriculum planners should include metacognitive strategies in the Social Studies curriculum to direct teachers on how to use it to improve students' performance. Besides school administrators and curriculum planners, this study has implications for the Social Studies teachers and the learners.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.209
Lateef A. Adio
The global widespread of Covid-19 disease has led to an unparalleled unemployment disaster cum employees’ market surprises and it is anticipated to bring in distinct systemic substitute and prolonged problems for global works. This study tries to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on job security and employees’ attrition of selected aviation companies in Lagos State. A cross-sectional design and simple random sampling technique were employed. A questionnaire was employed as the research instrument for the study with 269 respondents adjudged usable. Multiple regression and correlation analyses were employed to determine the hypotheses of the study. The hypotheses result showed that job security (r = 0.450, p < 0.05), employees’ attrition (r = 0.275, p < 0.05) and lay off and unemployment (F = 33.237; p =0.000) were significantly impacted by Covid-19. The study recommends that National governments and various bodies such as World Health Organizations (WHO) to introduce policies and guidelines that will cushion the impacts of Covid-19 on employees’ job security,’ attrition and lay off and unemployment in terms of taxes reductions, improved safety measures, contingencies approaches, reductions of levies on licenses, public awareness, relaxation of aviation laws in terms pilots renewal licenses, reduction of airline fuel price, reduction of parking lots of the aircrafts, supporting the airlines with funds and adequate incentives would curb employees attrition, job security and employment and would allow the aviation sector to rise again as in the past before the final solution to eradicate the pandemic.
新冠肺炎疫情在全球蔓延，造成了前所未有的失业灾难和员工的市场意外，预计将给全球工作带来明显的系统性替代和长期问题。本研究试图调查Covid-19对拉各斯州选定航空公司的工作保障和员工流失的影响。采用横断面设计和简单随机抽样技术。本研究采用问卷作为研究工具，共有269名受访者被认为是可用的。采用多元回归和相关分析来确定研究的假设。假设结果显示:工作保障(r = 0.450, p < 0.05)、员工流失率(r = 0.275, p < 0.05)、下岗失业(F = 33.237;p =0.000)受到Covid-19的显著影响。该研究建议各国政府和世界卫生组织(世卫组织)等各种机构出台政策和指导方针，以缓解Covid-19对员工工作保障、减员、裁员和失业的影响，包括减税、改善安全措施、应急措施、降低执照税、公众意识、放宽航空法(飞行员更新执照)、降低航空燃料价格、减少飞机的停机位，为航空公司提供资金和适当的奖励，将遏制员工流失、工作保障和就业，并将使航空业像过去一样再次崛起，直到最终解决这一流行病的问题。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.53935/2641-5305.v4i1.61
He Rong, S. Nair
The use of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teaching method in English writing proved to be efficient in enhancing students’ language and content knowledge. This study aims to explore the effects of utilizing CLIL method in teaching Business English Writing among Chinese college students. A quasi-experimental design was adopted. The experiment lasted for a total of eight weeks. The Experimental Group was taught Business English Writing using CLIL method while the Control Group was instructed with the conventional method. The sample of the study consists of 80 third year Business English college students from Shaoyang University in Hunan Province, China. Two classes of students were chosen as intact group sampling (40 students in each group). A pre-test and post-test were used as instruments. The data was analyzed using Independent samples t-test. Prior to the actual study a pilot test was carried out to obtain the reliability and validity of the instrument (writing test). The findings from quantitative data showed that students of the Experimental Group using CLIL teaching method performed significantly higher in their overall Business English Writing, report writing, memo writing, letter writing than students in the Control Group using conventional method. Therefore, it can be concluded that the CLIL principle should be employed as an alternative method in future writing classes. These findings have significant pedagogical implications because the CLIL method facilitated students to improve in their Business English writing skills.
在英语写作教学中运用CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)教学方法，对提高学生的语言知识和内容知识是有效的。本研究旨在探讨CLIL教学法在中国大学生商务英语写作教学中的效果。采用准实验设计。实验共进行了8周。实验组采用CLIL教学法进行商务英语写作教学，对照组采用常规教学法进行商务英语写作教学。本研究的样本包括80名来自中国湖南省邵阳大学商务英语专业三年级的学生。选取两班学生作为完整组抽样(每组40人)。采用前测和后测作为仪器。数据分析采用独立样本t检验。在实际研究之前，进行了一次试点测试，以获得该工具的信度和效度(写作测试)。定量数据显示，采用CLIL教学法的实验组学生在商务英语写作、报告写作、备忘录写作、信函写作等方面的总体成绩显著高于采用传统教学法的对照组学生。因此，可以得出结论，CLIL原则应该作为未来写作课的一种替代方法。这些发现具有重要的教学意义，因为CLIL方法促进了学生商务英语写作技能的提高。
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Pub Date : 2021-08-30DOI: 10.53935/2641-5305.v4i1.49
A. Nandi
This article examines the effects of marital status to the gender gap in employment hours. This article uses linear regression analysis with data from the European Social Survey Round 8. Stata/SE 16 is used to analyze the data collected from 18 European countries to explore the research questions. Previous literatures identify some determinants of work hours such as demographic characteristics, the division of household labor, job characteristics, and country-level determinants (e.g., welfare state, work-hour regulations, family policies, part-time labor force participation etc.), but there are few studies on marital status as determinant of work hours. This article finds that there is an interaction among marital status and work hours to the different levels of gender. This article shows that there is a gender inequality in the European labor market, where men’s work hours are more than women’s work hours. Unmarried women work less hours than any other studied categories of marital status (e.g., married, divorced).
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