LITHUANIA: MIGRATION TRENDS OF WORKERS

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LITHUANIA MIGRATION TRENDS OF WORKERS

• RASA MALAIŠKIENE,
• Ministry of Social Security and Labour, Lithuania
  
• MISEP meeting,
• Prague 5 6 March

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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
1990-2000, emigrated 277,9 thousand citizens of
Lithuania
Source Statistics Lithuania. Estimation was
carried out based on the data of the declaration
of the place of residence and surveys on
undeclared emigration
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
LT 1.5 person per 1000 population
Source Eurostats database, 18 September 2008
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source Statistics Lithuania
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source Statistics Lithuania
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source ,,TNS Gallup Survey of emigrants,
ordered by Public policy and management institute
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source Data of surveys on undeclared emigration
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
almost of emigrants had a purpose to work in
other countries
Source ,,TNS Gallup Survey of emigrants,
ordered by Public policy and management institute
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source ,,TNS Gallup Survey of emigrants,
ordered by Public policy and management institute
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source ,,TNS Gallup Survey of emigrants,
ordered by Public policy and management institute
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source ,,TNS Gallup Survey of emigrants,
ordered by Public policy and management institute
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Population number, net migration and natural
increase/ decrease
Year Population number as of 1 January, thousand Total decrease of the population, thousand Net migration thousand Natural increase/ decrease, thousand
2001 3487.0 -11.4 -2.6 -8.9
2002 3475.6 -13.0 -1.9 -11.1
2003 3462.5 -16.7 -6.3 -10.4
2004 3445.9 -20.5 -9.6 -10.9
2005 3425.3 -22.0 -8.8 -13.3
2006 3403.3 -18.4 -4.9 -13.5
2007 3384.9 -18.5 -5.2 -13.3
by data of the declaration of the place of
residence Source Statistics Lithuania
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Employment rate 2007 EU 27 65.4 EU 15 66.9
Unemployment rate 2007 EU 27 7.1 EU 15 7.0
Source Statistics Lithuania
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Belarus Ukraine Turkey Moldova China Russia
2007 38 35 7 5 4 4
2008 30 23 24 6 7 4
Source Lithuanian Labour Exchange
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source Lithuanian Labour Exchange
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Lithuania Migration trends of workers

• The Economic Migration Regulation Strategy
• Strategic goal to seek satisfying the needs of
  the Lithuanian labour market and encourage
  economic migrants to come back to their homeland
• Tasks and key measures of the Strategy
• Develop long-term measures for the management of
  economic migration
• Manage determinants of economic migration, with a
  view to ensuring the balance between demand and
  supply in the labour market
• Maintain close relations with Lithuanian economic
  migrants living in foreign countries and
  cooperate with operating Lithuanian
  organizations
• Accept workers from the third countries, taking
  into account the flows of returning emigrants of
  the local labour force and giving priority to the
  EU nationals
• Ensure effective interagency cooperation in the
  area of economic migration.

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Lithuania Migration trends of workers
Source Statistics Lithuania
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• Thank you for you attention