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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807812703321

Autore

Gunatilaka Ramani

Titolo

The challenge of youth unemployment in Sri Lanka / / Ramani Gunatilaka, Markus Mayer, and Milan Vodopivec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington DC : , : World Bank, , [2010]

copyright 2010

ISBN

1-283-30058-3

9786613300584

0-8213-8118-0

Descrizione fisica

xx, 274 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm

Collana

Directions in development

Altri autori (Persone)

MayerMarkus <1960->

VodopivecMilan

Disciplina

331.3/4137095493

Soggetti

Youth - Employment - Sri Lanka

School-to-work transition - Sri Lanka

Labor market - Sri Lanka

Youth - Sri Lanka - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Labor market trends and outcomes in Sri Lanka -- Labor market institutions and labor market segmentation in Sri Lanka -- Explaining labor market imbalance in Sri Lanka : evidence from JobsNet data -- Effects of training on labor market outcomes -- School-to-work transitions of Sri Lankan university graduates -- Youth mobility and overseas migration in Sri Lanka -- Developing youth entrepreneurs : a critical analysis of policies and programs on entrepreneurship as a youth employment -- Strategy in Sri Lanka -- Discrimination and social exclusion of youth in Sri Lanka -- A analysis of gender and ethnic wage differentials among youth in Sri Lanka : 1996-2004 -- Concerns of youth affected by civil conflict in Sri Lanka.

Sommario/riassunto

Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of "good jobs" for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in which mainstream institutions have failed to



address inequalities in the distribution of resources, as well as of benefi ts deriving from economic growth. Against this background, The Challenge of Youth Employment in Sri Lanka aims to identify ways to improve the opportunities available to new job m