Emigration and Unemployment in Lithuania: Correlations, Influencing Factors and Destinations
(2013) EKHK18 20131Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- This paper examines the extent to which emigration correlates to unemployment in Lithuania
during 1994-2012, unveils the main reasons behind the decision to emigrate and presents the
trends among emigrants’ destination countries. Even though there is no unanimous opinion, it
is argued that emigration is negatively correlated with unemployment. The Lithuanian case is
quite interesting and the numbers in Lithuanian statistics requires a more thorough analysis.
The conclusions drawn via IBM SPPS software are quite controversial and show positive
correlation, to a certain extent, between emigration and unemployment in Lithuania. The main
influences of emigration are extracted via the unique questionnaire and then analysed via
different... (More) - This paper examines the extent to which emigration correlates to unemployment in Lithuania
during 1994-2012, unveils the main reasons behind the decision to emigrate and presents the
trends among emigrants’ destination countries. Even though there is no unanimous opinion, it
is argued that emigration is negatively correlated with unemployment. The Lithuanian case is
quite interesting and the numbers in Lithuanian statistics requires a more thorough analysis.
The conclusions drawn via IBM SPPS software are quite controversial and show positive
correlation, to a certain extent, between emigration and unemployment in Lithuania. The main
influences of emigration are extracted via the unique questionnaire and then analysed via
different perspectives have a degree of controversy as well. The destination countries
compared from two different data sets are quite different, yet, show similar trends. (Less)
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- author
- Svedas, Severas LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHK18 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- emigration, unemployment, reasons, factors, destination, host country, Lithuania.
- language
- English
- id
- 3813722
- date added to LUP
- 2013-10-14 14:55:53
- date last changed
- 2016-08-30 04:08:44
@misc{3813722, abstract = {{This paper examines the extent to which emigration correlates to unemployment in Lithuania during 1994-2012, unveils the main reasons behind the decision to emigrate and presents the trends among emigrants’ destination countries. Even though there is no unanimous opinion, it is argued that emigration is negatively correlated with unemployment. The Lithuanian case is quite interesting and the numbers in Lithuanian statistics requires a more thorough analysis. The conclusions drawn via IBM SPPS software are quite controversial and show positive correlation, to a certain extent, between emigration and unemployment in Lithuania. The main influences of emigration are extracted via the unique questionnaire and then analysed via different perspectives have a degree of controversy as well. The destination countries compared from two different data sets are quite different, yet, show similar trends.}}, author = {{Svedas, Severas}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Emigration and Unemployment in Lithuania: Correlations, Influencing Factors and Destinations}}, year = {{2013}}, }