| Title |
Spatial differences of economic wellbeing in Lithuania. Are peripheral regions always losers? / |
| Authors |
Burneika, Donatas ; Ubarevičienė, Rūta |
| ISBN |
9781897721681 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
New Horizons for Cities and Regions in a Changing World.. Brighton : Regional Studies Association, 2018. p. 9.. ISBN 9781897721681 |
| Keywords [eng] |
spatial differences ; wellbeing ; Lithuania |
| Abstract [eng] |
Since the collapse of Soviet Union, Lithuania experienced fast shrinkage of jobs mainly in industry and agriculture and this shrinkage was especially evident in peripheral places. Fast decrease of employment later resulted in mass emigration, what widely is perceived as extremely negative phenomenon, - cause rather than consequence of economic problems. The rapid downfall of jobs and high unemployment are over for a past few years but regions are still qualified as problem ones. The analysis of economic trends in labour market and earnings shows that slower development or growing spatial inequalities is not common for all non-capital regions and objective wellbeing is not substantially worse for the most population groups residing in such places. The levels of social segregation are also lower here and are not increasing as fast as in metropolitan cities. On the other hand, peripherization processes overtake country and processes of redistribution of population are making certain impact on spatial social structure of population as migrations are selective. Multinodal urban structure of the country did not help to ensure even economic development in postsoviet era but existence of a few metropolitan centres in NUTS 2 region size country at present ensures differentiation of migration flows inside it. Notwithstanding the growing dominance of the capital city Vilnius, the country withholds multi nodal development. This research was funded by a grant (No. GER-005/2017) from the Research Council of Lithuania Keywords: Uneven development, migrations, Lithuania, residential differentiation. |
| Published |
Brighton : Regional Studies Association, 2018 |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2018 |
