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    An Analysis of Socio Cultural Issue related to Unskilled Women Migration from Sri Lanka to Middle East.
    (1st International Studies Students’ Research Symposium-2017 (ISSRS 2017) ,Department of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Alles, D.R.
    Since 1977 Sri Lankan unskilled women migration gradually move for substantially important path. Moreover it gathered foreign remittances to the motherland and it becomes key aspect of annual Gross National Product (GNP). And the social aspect of economically wellbeing is encouraged rural or countryside people to migrate, especially women to Middle East as Housemaids. Then in 1985 Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign employment established Sri Lanka foreign employment Bureau and Sri Lanka foreign employment Agency to support and encourage people. During the 90th century Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain were popular. Then Sri Lanka became a labour source country. This research observed about challengers, difficulties and harassments faced by the housemaids in Middle East and why they become victims of those facts under following objectives. To identify reasons of increased unskilled women migration from Sri Lanka to Middle East. To analyze the Socio and Cultural issues in working places of Middle East. To determine the actions were taken by the government to decrease the problems of Middle East and limitations of that. And secondary data such as researches and recorded data about former housemaid employers may contribute to identify their attitudes on employments in Middle East. Moreover their own experiences will be the great evidences to find key tasks. They do not have proper education of using electronics and about culture. Also cannot against over their master’s behaviors. Because of they are week and powerless. Some of housemaids came back with permanently disabled, sick, sexual harassments, painful experiences or died. And the other social effect is children of migrate mother exploited by the society. Those findings were the outcomes of this research. Suggestions are the government should make more successful procedure for unskilled women migration to the Middle East, The human rights of housemaids must be protected. Therefore this women migration must be updated by the current circumstances according to the world labour market and responsible to protect social condition of human values. This research should be important for scholars, researchers, undergraduates and people who are engaged with this subject for further observations.
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    The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Employment Level in Sri Lanka
    (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2013) Herath, H.M.S.P.; Cao, Liang; Cheng, Yongbing
    This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalization and employment level of Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the main objective of the study is to investigate the degree of relationship between trade liberalization and employment level of Sri Lanka. The secondary data were used to analyze the study problem during the 1990 – 2012 time period. Data published by the Department of Census and Statistics and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka were used. The behavior of major variables which are directly related to trade liberalization and employment were analyzed quantitatively. The present study has employed Ordinary Least Square method (OLS) to assess the multiple regression model. In assessing the effects of trade liberalization, empirical model mainly employed three independent variables, import penetration ratio, export intensity and weighted tariff rate, to disentangle the trade effects on employment with several control variables. Gross domestic product, capital labor ratio, foreign direct investments and real wage rate are the major control variables included in the empirical model. As the major finding of the study, it is concluded that one percent increase of export intensity increases the employment by 0.614 percent. Also, import penetration ratio has a significant negative effect on Sri Lankan’s total employment; one percent increase of import penetration ratio leads to 0.523 per cent reduction of country’s total employment. The regressor which is included to the model, weighted tariff rate, is not statistically significant. Statistically significant coefficient for capital-labor ratio indicates that one percent increase results to decrease employment by 0.437 percent.