Abstract

In order to contribute to the debate on corruption-unemployment nexus, we use annual panel data for the period 2005-2019 for Thirty-Three Sub-Saharan African countries to investigate the impact of corruption in public sector on unemployment. We utilise the one step system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and two step system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). Our findings reveal that corruption in public sector exerts positive, however, not statistically significant impact on unemployment. In addition, our empirical evidence reveals that unemployment is persistent in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on our findings, we conclude that even though unemployment is persistent in Sub-Saharan African countries, there is no strong evidence to contend that corruption in the public sector is a strong driver of unemployment in these countries.