Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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

Unemployment -- Sri Lanka. --- Unemployment -- Life skills. --- Unemployment -- Youth. --- Youth --- School-to-work transition --- Labor market --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Employment --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- School-to-careers programs --- School-to-work programs --- Transition, School-to-work --- Supply and demand --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Markets --- Career education --- Education, Cooperative