This study aims to investigate the short-run and long-run relationship between economic variables and the unemployment …-run relationship between the unemployment rate and the selected economic variables. Data were collected from WDI, WGI, and FDSD for the … between the unemployment rate and economic variables over time. The finding of the study showed a negative and significant …

Sri Lanka has a significant chronic unemployment problem. Depending on time period and the definition of unemployment … it varies from the low teens to over twenty percent. Nearly all of this unemployment is concentrated among young people … who are looking for their first job. Unemployment duration is very long with typical spells lasting four years or more …

Unemployment in Sri Lanka is largely voluntary. The underlying problem is not a shortage of jobs but the artificial gap …'s high unemployment rate has been attributed to a mismatch of skills, to queuing for public sector jobs, and to stringent job …'s unemployment problem, using individual records from the 1995 Labor Force Survey and time series for wages in the economy`s formal …

expenditure, Government size, Economic growth, Inflation, and Unemployment are vital in this regard. However, despite following … unemployment was established. Unemployment is also granger caused government size. No nexus was found to the major effect other …

High unemployment in Sri Lanka has been attributed to unrealistic expectations, to queuing for public sector jobs, and … time-series analysis of the impact of unemployment on wage increases across sectors suggests that many among the unemployed …

unemployment.Methodology: Secondary data which are collected from the Central bank reports of Sri Lanka have been utilized in this … growth and unemployment. Data on the foreign direct investment, economic growth and unemployment from the year 1990 to 2011 … significant impact of economic growth on the unemployment. Over 40 percent impact has been found. In contrast, in the long term …