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Item Migration of agricultural labourers and its impact on the farming sector(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2014) Gundappa; Dsouza, A.A.Human beings keep on struggling for their food, shelter and other basic requirements since ages. They have a natural tendency of acquiring personal growth. Migration has been a general activity of human lives. Considers migration as a permanent or semi-permanent change of residence with no restriction the distance involved in the movement Lee broadly (1966). “It is not population that process on productivity power. It is productivity that process on population”. Karl marks and Engels. Since ancient times, human beings are migrating from one region to another region and from one place to another place for one or the other reason. During ancient days, the migration was influenced mainly by the geographical factors like atmosphere, soil fertility, natural vegetation etc. Internal conflicts, conflicts between religion and local wars. Casual and unskilled workers who move about systematically from one region to another off earning their services on a temporary, usually, seasonal, basis. These migrations have intensified after industrial revolution. Rampant migration has resulted in making metropolitan cities. Most migrant labourers have no reemployment rights, are usually unorganized in unions and have little systematic access to job seeking. Middlemen, job brokers, labour contractors and crew leaders arise out of this fundamental disorganization of the labour market. The fact that the unorganized migrant workers is “HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW” makes the regulation of his working and living conditions difficult. The term migration refers to the people’s movement from their native place to a new place perhaps permanently, temporarily or seasonal migrants. The labour market for migrant workers in agricultural in notable disorderly, partly, because such workers employment relationship is temporary. Thus, if region is taken as the basis, it may be international and internal migration. This paper enlightenes that unorganized agriculture labour facing problems socially, culturally and economically in Bangalore city.Item Skills Mismatch Hypothesis and its Relevance in Explaining the Current Unemployment in Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Patabendige, A.J.Unemployment in Sri Lanka throughout the last few decades has been extremely high compared with those in most of the countries in the Asian region, which have been following open market policies similar to Sri Lanka. In analyzing the unemployment problem ‘skills mismatch’ hypothesis, first articulated by the ILO Mission to Sri Lanka in 1971, is still highly influential. Those who stress the orthodox view of the mismatch hypothesis believe implicitly that although the economy has employment opportunities, jobs expected by a large amount of job seekers are not adequately found or they do not fit into the prevailing jobs. Particularly the private sector business leaders ascribe this mismatch primarily to the weakness of the educational structure of the country. However, new evidence appears to believe that rigour of mismatch hypothesis has faded away. In this setting, this paper aims at challenging the majority view that mismatch is responsible rather than the lack of employment generation in the economy to appear a high level of unemployment in the country. The paper, mainly depending on various sources of secondary data, found that the mismatch hypothesis is still relevant in some areas. Accordingly: i) a high percentage of the unemployed desire employment in professional, technical and clerical occupations although in the current employment profile these three categories comprise only a lesser percentage of all the employed; ii) the analysis of the profile of expectation reveals that expectations for higher level jobs rise with increasing education; and iii) long-term unemployment is most conspicuous among those who have obtained higher educational qualifications. Contrary to the majority view, it is found that i) unemployment in all educational levels shows a considerable decline with nearly the same rates over the years; ii) the unemployment rate of females throughout the past period shows a faster declining; iii) the university education system, particularly in the last decade or so, has been geared to give more skills to graduates; and iv) the employment creation by the formal private sector as the engine for growth has not sufficient to catch up job loss in the public sector after 1990, and absorb new job seekers considerably to the formal economy. Consequently, the paper concludes that the strength of mismatch hypothesis has now considerably faded away, and failure to create a sufficient amount of employment by the private sector led economy is largely responsible for the current high unemployment level of the economy.