The Employment Status of the Elderly in Sri Lanka: Patterns and Determinants
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Keywords
Elderly; Employment Status; Sri Lanka;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2012-12-10 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-CWA-2012-12-10 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-DEM-2012-12-10 (Demographic Economics)
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