The number of supermarkets has been rapidly growing in Sri Lanka during the recent
past. This study attempts to identify determinants of such growth. There are four main
objectives of this paper, namely (i) to understand ...
Although growth of foreign workers in Japan has been the lowest among
the OECD countries, their structural changes in terms of country of origin,
age, gender, profession, industry, size of the firm and types of works ...
International labour migration and migrants’ remittances have been
tremendously increasing and diversifying during the past few decades. The
reported number of Sri Lankan international migrants increased to 1.5 ...
There are three main objectives of this study. The first is to measure the regional (provincial
level) income inequality in Sri Lanka in recent past with a decomposable inequality measure.
The second is to quantify the ...
This paper investigates causes of trends and structural changes in labour
market in Sri Lanka during 1963-2006 period. Total labour force has
increased nearly three times while generating slow growth in employment
during ...
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of trade
liberalization on wage inequality in Sri Lanka. For this purpose, both micro
and macro level labour income and wage data were used. After explaining
the ...