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    Influencing Factors of Paddy Production in Sri Lanka
    (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Withanage, H.H.
    Gross Domestic Product is structured by a combination of the agriculture, industrial and service sectors in Sri Lanka. Paddy is the main growing crop of famers in agricultural sector. In literate review emphasized that there were several factors that affect the production of paddy in Sri Lankan economy such as fertilize usage and land. According to that, the researcher attempted to examine the most reasonable factor affect to paddy production in Sri Lanka. The sample of the research collected from Central Bank Annual Report in Sri Lanka according to the secondary data of paddy production, fertilize usage and land from 1987 to 2016. The research revealed that paddy production gradually increased in 2015 although it has decreased in 1996. In the analysis of the research, the researcher built two hypotheses. The null hypothesis was there is no relationship between fertilize usage, land and the paddy production. The alternative hypothesis was there is a relationship between fertilize usage, land and the paddy production. The findings of the research emphasized that there is a positive relationship between fertilize usage, land and the paddy production by accepting the alternative hypothesis under regression analysis. It means that when fertilize usage was constant if land factor increased in one unit, the paddy production also increased in 1.44 units. And also when land factor was constant if fertilize usage increased in one unit, the paddy production also increased in 1.33 units. Finally, it described that the land factor was made more influence on the paddy production
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    Labour Movement from Private Sector to Public Sector and Drivers of Labour Movement in Sri Lanka
    (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Withanage, H.H.; Kularatne, M.G.
    Labour movement, especially seeking employment opportunities from one sector to another is a very common factor in the era of globalization. In the mixed economic system, labour moves between private sector and the public sector and vice versa. In the study “Labour Movement from Private Sector to Public Sector and Drivers of Labour Movement in Sri Lanka” it is intended to investigate the labour movement direction from private sector to public sector. The output will be compared with the findings on the literature that will help to prove the hypothesis of the research. The data was collected from purposely selected one public institute and two institutes of private sector using a questionnaire survey. A total of 27 employees from the Public Sector and 24 employees from the Private Sector were selected using systematic random sampling method. This represented 20% of the total population. The research revealed that 41% workers wished to move to the private sector from public sector while 71% workers wished to move from private sector to public sector. In conclusion, it clearly empasized that more labourers in the private sector prefers to move to the public sector in Sri Lanka due to reasons such as pension, number of holidays, working hours, credit facilities and job security