In the modern world, balancing professional life and family life has become a great challenge for almost every organization. Also, the absence of work-life balance has an adverse effect on employee performance in many respects. Thus, it is essential to understand the impact of work-life balance...

Competition in the business environment is becoming rigorous over the years. As a result, concern over gaining and retention of the competitive position within the market place become the major concern by the organizations. In order to achieve this objective, employee performance is vital for...

Utilizing a nationally representative sample of households from Sri Lanka, this study examines gender differences in the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare households with return migrants, households with current migrants,...

Work-family balance is a challenging issue for many working adults. As far as Sri Lanka is concerned employees' awareness and perception about work-family balance is very limited in comparison to Western countries. Academics in Sri Lanka are no exceptions and they receive very little or no...

The impact of hosting refugees on child labor in host countries is unclear. This paper estimates both the short and the long term consequences of hosting refugees fleeing from the genocides of Rwanda and Burundi in the Kagera region of Tanzania between 1991 and 2004. The study uses longitudinal...

Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...

Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...