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Determinants of Migrations and Remittances: Evidence from Rural Sector of Sri Lanka
No full textAgriculture remains as one of the major sources of employment to the rural community in Sri Lanka. However, problems such as inadequate land and capital, low productivity and personal attitudes have pushed the rural agricultural worker to migrate out of the sector. As the decision to migrate is made at the household level, characteristics of the household shape up the decision to migrate and send remittances to the origin communities. Therefore, this study is an attempt to find the determinants of migration and the remittances of the rural sector of Sri Lanka with special emphasis on household level characteristics. In identifying the determinants, the study has estimated several multinomial logit models separately based on the status of migration and receipt of remittances using a nationally representative data set of Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2009/2010). The results reveal that human capital characteristics are not major positive determinants of rural sector migration and receiving remittances implying that households with better education remain in the rural sector. Rural households with more members tend to have more migrants while it is a negative determinant of the receipt of remittances. Results also suggest that rural households receive more remittances from internal migrants when they have school age children. Based on these results, this study concludes that people diversify into different income earning strategies such as migration when they have more household members while education has contributed positively to keep the rural households in the sector. Therefore, the retaining human capital can be used in the rural development process if proper policies are implemented.KeywordsDeterminants, Migration, Remittances, Rural Sect
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Gender and Intra-household Allocation of Remittances: Evidence from Estate Sector of Sri Lanka
No full textUsing a nationally representative data set, we examine whether the individuals’ bargaining power within households affects allocation of remittances in estate households in Sri Lanka. Two separate fractional logit models were estimated within the Engle’s Curve framework for male headed and female headed households to examine the intra household bargaining on decision making with respect to resource allocation. The results suggest that while female headed households allocate international remittances on food, male headed households allocate such on housing. The results further reveal that internal remittances contribute more for food, communication, entertainment, non-durables, transport and ad hoc purchases of male headed households. The influence of remitters on allocation for the food expenditure is relatively small but it is high for education, housing, health, consumer goods, durables and expenditure for ad hoc purchases, entertainment and transport. Overall, the study concludes that remitter has a greater say over the allocation of household resources over expenditures other than food and housing whereas household head play a significant role in allocating remittances on food and housing
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No full textTHE EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL INJUSTICE ON INTENTION TO MIGRATION AMONG EMPLOYEES IN SRI LANKA WITH THE MODERATION EFFECT OF JOB ENTRENCHMENT
Eshadi, S.H.A.H and Lakchan U.G.C
PROMOTING UNDERUTILIZED INDIGENOUS FRUIT MARKET IN SRI LANKA AS A NEW AGRIBUSINESS VENTURE: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Silva K.N.N. and Rasanjalee P.H.N.
DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM BUTTALA DIVISIONAL SECRETARY’S DIVISION IN SRI LANKA
Erangajith R.M.D., Thayaparan A. and Phillip P.M.G.
ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMMISSION-BASED INCENTIVES ON LOTTERY AGENT MOTIVATION IN GALLE DISTRICT SRI LANKA
Jayaratne T.A. and Rathnayake H. D.
HOUSEHOLD INCOME DIVERSIFICATION AND FOOD SECURITY IN SRI LANKA
Dharmadasa R.A.P.I.S., Sanjeewa K.A.S., Tharsalan M., and Subasingha S.A.T.P
MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN SRI LANKA: AN ARDL APPROACH (1990–2021)
Rasara A.A.B.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GREEN VALUE CREATION OF SMES:
AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF SRI LANKA
Sivashanker R
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
CONJOINT ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATE THE CONSUMER PREFERENCE ON READY TO DRINK TEA
No full textThe estimation of the consumer preference on ready to drink tea is an essential requirement for current Sri Lankan tea industry, because it is the current trend that bulk tea exportation is being converted to value added forms due to high customer orientation. Among value additions to tea, ready to drink (RTD) tea is one of the excellent products which emerge with modern tea consumer. Therefore industry must be able to determine the values and requirements of their existing and potential customers on these products. Hence, it is important for the Sri Lankan tea Industry to develop and validate a diverse array of metrics to comprehensively capture the attitudes and feelings of modern tea consumers. Therefore, a this study attempts to examine the role and product attributes of RTD tea in satisfying the customer. This was done using a conjoint analysis of consumer preferences based on data, collected from 348 consumers. Results indicate that the most important attributes which affect consumers are price and availability of RTD tea.Keywords: Consumer Preference, Ready to Drink Tea, Conjoint AnalysisFor full Paper: [email protected]
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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