Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model of a country with successful social policies, yet for decades it has faced major challenges in providing employment and satisfying other aspirations of youth. Although the labor force has become more educated, and this trend is particularly marked for...

Sri Lanka liberalised its economy in 1977, paving the way for more rapid economic growth and higher rates of job creation. But tensions over distributional issues still plague the body politic. This paper investigates the evolution of Sri Lanka's income distribution in the period 1980-2002 and...

The study applies cointegration techniques to the Central Bank's informal wage sector series for agriculture and construction to analyse real wage trends and trends in labour market integration in Sri Lanka's Central Province during the post-liberalisation era. The study finds that real wages in...