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Sri Lanka's Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not...
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Sri Lanka’s Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not...
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<Para ID="Par1">Sri Lanka’s Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not...</para>
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sector. A theoretical model shows that firms subject to TEWA will tend to mass at or below the threshold of 14 workers until … they get an atypically large productivity shock that would propel them beyond the threshold. EPZ firms will be largely … likely to add employees than nonEPZ firms. Above the threshold, nonEPZ firms are more likely to shed workers while EPZ firms …
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This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
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Structural Violence and the Role of the Labour-Sending State in International Migration -- The Philippines and Sri Lanka: Becoming Emigration States -- International Legal Framework: Rights-Based Intersectional Approach -- Regional Consultative Mechanisms on Migration and the Role of Civil...
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