The Challenge of Youth Unemployment in Sril Lanka.
Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of?good jobs? for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in w...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington :
World Bank Publications,
2010.
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| ISBN: | 9780821381182 0821381180 1283300583 9781283300582 9786613300584 6613300586 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; About the Authors and Editors; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Problem of Youth Unemployment; Chapter 1: Labor Market Trends and Outcomes in Sri Lanka; Chapter 2: Labor Market Institutions and Labor Market Segmentation in Sri Lanka; Chapter 3: Explaining Labor Market Imbalance in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Jobsnet Data; Chapter 4: Effect of Training on Labor Market Outcomes; Chapter 5: School-to-Work Transition of Sri Lankan University Graduates; Chapter 7: Developing Youth Entrepreneurs: A Viable Youth Employment Strategy in Sri Lanka?
- Chapter 8: Discrimination and Social Exclusion of Youth in Sri LankaChapter 9: An Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Wage Differentials among Youth in Sri Lanka; Chapter 10: Concerns of Youth Affected by Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka; Index; Back cover.