http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1765 2026-04-27T08:07:16Z 2026-04-27T08:07:16Z Samaraweera, G.R.S.R.C. Ranasinghe, M.D.A.L. http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4357 2024-03-22T06:58:54Z 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z

MOONLIGHTING CHOICE IN LABOUR MARKET DECISION MAKING IN SRI LANKA Samaraweera, G.R.S.R.C.; Ranasinghe, M.D.A.L. Moonlighting, holding more than one job, is a significant phenomenon in the current labour markets in South Asia. As a country with rapid population ageing, Sri Lanka is facing the challenge of a shrinking labour force within the next decade and moonlighting would be a safeguard to maximize the utilization of the potential labour force of the country in the future. The main objective of this study is to identify the factors associated with moonlighting in Sri Lanka. Secondary data available from the Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey 2017 conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics was used for the study. The sample size was 63,380 working-age people out of which 2,747 moonlighters were recorded in the sample from among the 32,588 employed. The Probit model was used to identify the factors associated with moonlighting of individuals allowing the selectivity adjustment for labour force participation and employment. The findings revealed that the hours’ constraint motive is still valid in the Sri Lankan context, with a significant positive relationship between underemployment in the primary job and moonlighting choice. The hourly wage rate of the primary job has a significant negative relationship with moonlighting, thus showing the importance of financial motive in moonlighting. Age, Marital status, and Gender are the other factors affecting moonlighting tendency due to financial motives. It was found that moonlighting is high among professionals and agricultural workers. Professionals are moonlighting for the purpose of human capital enhancement and the heterogeneous job motive while agricultural workers are seeking second jobs for financial and job security. Introducing employment portfolios and facilitating moonlighting among professionals will lead to an increase in the full capacity utilization of the labour force of the country in the policy aspect. this article is originally published by the Sri Lanka Journal of Population Studies, Department of Demography, University of Colombo and details about the journal is available at https://pasl.lk/. This article is archived in this collection upon the request of the first author of the article.

2022-02-01T00:00:00Z Sachinthana, P.A.D.I. Samaraweera, G.R.S.R.C. http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4316 2024-02-16T08:10:20Z 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z

EMPOWER THE ABILITY: WHAT DRIVES PERSONS WITH FUNCTIONAL DIFFICULTIES INTO WORK IN SRI LANKA? Sachinthana, P.A.D.I.; Samaraweera, G.R.S.R.C. Disability which is defined as Functional Difficulties (FD) in physical or mental health is one of the major disadvantageous situations of people’s lives. It limits their ability to effectively involve themselves in day to day life roles, enter the labour market and also reduces the quality of their lives. Generally, persons without FD enjoy a better chance in labour market participation than those with such difficulties. This creates inequality and poverty among the people with FD by creating a huge barrier against the development goals of the country as well. The main objective of this study is to identify the key drivers of employment choice of persons with FD in Sri Lanka. The Binary Logistic Regression Model was used for econometric modelling by using a sample of 10,470 persons with FD from the Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey in 2018. This study identified that being married, being male, their per capita income, suffering from only hearing difficulty, only walking difficulty, only remembering difficulty, only communication difficulty, only self-care difficulty, only vision difficulty and dual difficulty as the significant and positively affecting factors; while age, being Sri Lankan Tamil, being Moor and other ethnicities, being in urban sector and years of education as significantly negatively affecting factors for employment probability among persons with FD. According to the study, occupation, education, self-employment and workplace related policies are proposed for empowering the ability of those with FD. This article has previously published in the Journal of Insurance & Finance (JIF) (URL: https://fbsf.wyb.ac.lk/journal-of-insurance-finance-jif/ ) COpyright and original ownership of this article may same as the original source and all the acknowledgements related to this article must made to the JIF.

2021-02-03T00:00:00Z Silva, C.W.C. Fernando, M.A.C.S.S. http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1771 2021-07-03T08:20:41Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

THE IMPACT OF IMPORTANT CONTEXTUAL FACTORS ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN SRI LANKA Silva, C.W.C.; Fernando, M.A.C.S.S. Supply Chain Management (SCM) practices have been defined as a set of activities undertaken in an organization to promote effective management of its supply chain. The objectives of the study are: to analyze the impact of important contextual factors on SCM practices, to recommend the areas to be improved for better SCM practices in manufacturing firms of different industries and different sizes. The contextual factors are: Industry, Organization Size, Length and Structure of the Supply Chain and Level of Uncertainty in the Demand. For evaluating the SC performance, the measurement instrument developed by Suhong Li et al. (2005), was used, and it includes six SCM constructs: Strategic Supplier Partnership [SSP], Customer Relationship [CR], Information Sharing [IS], Information Quality [IQ], Internal Lean Practices [ILP] and Postponement [POS] with a number of dimensions (attributes) for each construct. Identifying the impact of firm’s main contextual factors on SCM practices will help to reduce complexity in the implementation process and come across possible means to deal with the impact of the factors. This study was based on data collected through a questionnaire from 86 randomly selected manufacturing firms from apparel, food and printing industries. A formal statistical analysis including analysis of variance (ANOVA), pairwise mean comparison and rank correlation analysis was performed. The research found that: only IS and IQ practices are affected by the contextual factors; apparel manufacturers have relatively higher level of IS practice; industry and the size of the firm have a combined impact on IQ and SC structure has significant effect on both IS and IQ. The nature of these effects was also analyzed in detail. Recommendations were made on specific dimensions of SCM practices which are statistically significant among contextual factors.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fernando, M.A.C.S.S. Silva, C.W.C. http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1770 2021-07-03T08:12:53Z 2012-12-24T00:00:00Z

FACTORS AFFECTING ON CREDIT CARD USAGE AMONG UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SABARAGAMUWA UNIVERSITY Fernando, M.A.C.S.S.; Silva, C.W.C. The role of money as the major medium of exchange has been rapidly changing over time within this knowledge economy, where needs are greatly complicated, and people largely consider security and convenience in fulfilling them. Plastic credit cards have now replaced notes and coins and become a widely used source of convenient credit for restaurants, hotels, on-line shopping, gasoline stations, grocery stores, dental and medical care etc. The five leaders in the credit card industry today, are Visa International, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and Diner’s Club. In this study, credit cards of HSBC, Seylan, Standard Charted, Commercial, Hatten National, Sampath, and Bank of Ceylon were considered. Data have been collected through a questionnaire distributed among academic and non-academic staff in Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. A sample representing about 50% of staff living in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and Southern provinces will minimize the bias due to selecting the sample from one university. A binary logistic regression model was fitted to discover the effect of factors: Gender, Age, Occupation, Race, Education level, Religion, Residency and District on credit card usage. Additionally, the reasons for selecting a bank, most popular credit card, transaction that credit card is highly used and expected advantages were also found through a descriptive statistical analysis. The research has revealed that Occupation has a significant effect on credit card usage while Gender and Age have a combined effect. Findings of the study would be important to bankers, customers and especially to business policy makers or planners in their decision making process mainly on business expansion.

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