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 …

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 …

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 …

data series including inflation, actual output, unemployment and capacity utilization. The estimation results suggest that …