Emigration: a Price of Inequality or a Breach of Social Contract?

Laurinavičius, Antanas; Laurinavičius, Algimantas

doi:10.3846/cbme.2017.018

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“…This happened in Lithuania at the beginning of the 21 st century. Since entering the EU (2004), Lithuania has lost almost half a million people (or 14% of the population), and over a quarter of a century, the nation decreased almost by one fourth (Laurinavičius & Laurinavičius, 2017).…”

Section: Background: Income Inequality Subjective Well-being and Emmentioning

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Impact of Income Inequality on Emigration: Case of Lithuania and Other New Eu Member States

Laurinavičius

2020

Business, Management and Education

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Purpose – The objective of the article is to analyse how income inequality affects population decisions on emigration. Research methodology – Correlation and regression analysis are used to determine the relationship between the analysed social phenomena. Firstly, the correlation between income inequality (its change) and emigration rates is calculated. Secondly, the static and dynamic aspect is evaluated, as well as the influence of data delay (lag) on decision-making. Finally, a regression equation is constructed, showing how one variable affects the other. Findings – The analysis identifies the conditions and severity of population income inequality that may influence their emigration decisions. On the one hand, the impact is more substantial in the crisis and post-crisis period, and, on the other, in the new EU member states. Research limitations – Sensibility of emigration to different conditions like accessibility (i.e. the opportunity to emigrate freely, such as being a member of the Schengen area) and the income gap between countries of origin and destination is a major limitation of the article which should be examined more closely in later works. Practical implications – The analysis of emigration problem and the identification of its possible links with income inequality would allow economists to assess a priori potential of various measures suggested in practice and, consequently, would allow for the more targeted formulation of the State economic policy. Originality/Value – The novelty of the article is defined by insufficient scientific research of relationships between income inequality and emigration as socio-economic phenomena within the new EU member states. A scientific analysis of the problem of emigration and the identification of its possible links with income inequality would contribute to a more detailed study of the scientific aspects of emigration and income inequality.

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Section: Background: Income Inequality Subjective Well-being and Emmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Income Inequality on Emigration: Case of Lithuania and Other New Eu Member States

Laurinavičius

2020

Business, Management and Education

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“…In comparison to countries with similar economic development, emigration rates from Lithuania are the highest in the region (Emigration issues 2006; Statistical data 2018; Statistical data 2019). It is not surprising that contemporary migration receives appropriate attention in Lithuania (Servetkienė 2012;Woolfson & Juska & Genelyte 2012;Laurinavičius & Laurinavičius 2017;Genys & Krikštolaitis 2018;Genelytė 2019). It seems that emigration is determined not only by economic factors but also by deeper, more complex causes related to more general socio-political and socio-cultural microclimate within society, especially its emotional capital.…”

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Emotional State and Inequality among Lithuanian Emigrants

Genys¹,

Strumickienė²,

Krikštolaitis³

2020

FEJF

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Recent public polls have revealed that 56.7 percent of Lithuanian emigrants (N=1500) feel superfluous in their homeland. Many of them are not only disappointed with the country and therefore decide to leave, but also can find neither adequate emotional relations with their homeland afterwards nor maintain healthy emotional ties with fellow Lithuanians. With this in mind, the article aims to describe the contexts that determine the emotional state of Lithuanian emigrants and the distribution of emotional inequality among the most prominent social groups. The survey was conducted in order to test the emotional state of Lithuanian emigrants and gather empirical evidence regarding the specific reasons for that. Accordingly, three tasks are formulated for this empirical research: to perform a cluster analysis and distinguish the main social groups based on socioeconomic differences in society; to identify and describe contexts that lead to a poor emotional state (contexts of interactions) and a subjective reflexivity of the public; to explore the differences of emotional inequality among the researched groups. The article concludes with three intertwined factors that foster the poor emotional state of emigrating Lithuanians. The survey was conducted from January to February 2018 (number of respondents-N=1500).

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Macroeconomic Variables Influencing Life Satisfaction in the Eu, and Its Impact on Emigration

Laurinavičius

2021

International Scientific Conference „Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Economics Engineering"

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Abstract. Purpose of the research is to analyse what variables influence subjective well-being (which is measured as overall life satisfaction in the EU) and how it affects population’s decisions on emigration. Research methodology – a correlation between several independent variables and overall life satisfaction is calculated. Then, a correlation between overall life satisfaction and emigration rates is measured. Finally, regression equations are constructed showing how some variables affect the other. Findings – analysis helped to identify key variables which influenced overall life satisfaction and its impact on population’s decisions on emigration. Those key variables include GDP per capita, income inequality and unemployment. Research limitations – to analyse more social phenomena and not only the economic ones would contribute to research development in the future. Moreover, analysis of dynamic aspects would provide deeper insight of relationships. Practical implications – the analysis of emigration problem and the identification of its possible links with life satisfaction will allow economists to assess a priori potential of various measures suggested in practice and, consequently, will allow for more targeted formulation of the economic policy. Originality/Value – scientific analysis of life satisfaction enables to have a new look on emigration problem in theory and practice.

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Emigration: a Price of Inequality or a Breach of Social Contract?

Cited by 3 publications

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Impact of Income Inequality on Emigration: Case of Lithuania and Other New Eu Member States

Impact of Income Inequality on Emigration: Case of Lithuania and Other New Eu Member States

Emotional State and Inequality among Lithuanian Emigrants

Macroeconomic Variables Influencing Life Satisfaction in the Eu, and Its Impact on Emigration

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