Assessing the heterogeneous effect of unemployment on ecological footprint in Africa

Jean- Luc Mubenga-Tshitaka

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Abstract: The paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the environmental quality known as the environmental Phillips Curve (EPC) hypothesis by accounting for the heterogeneity among African countries. To the best of our knowledge, no prior study has examined the environmental-unemployment nexus in the African context. The annual data of unemployment, gross domestic product, population growth, usage of renewable, non-renewable energy, urbanization and ecological footprints from 1990 to 2021 are sourced from the World Bank and Global Footprint network. A set of methods is employed for empirical analysis. The results confirm there is a trade-off between the unemployment rate and the environmental quality in Africa. However, when the heterogeneous effect is considered. The findings reveal that unemployment in Africa has detrimental effect on the environmental quality. The effect becomes more significant in higher percentile. Policy implications are discussed.

Keywords: Ecological footprint; Unemployment; environmental Phillips curve; heterogeneous; Kenel-Based Regularized Least Squares; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 Q01 Q56 Q59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-05-09
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