EVALUATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMIGRATION INTENTIONS: THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Aurelija Petronytė,Aurelija Ulbinaitė

doi:10.3846/cibmee.2019.009

Abstract

Purpose – the purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between youth entrepreneurship and emigration attitudes by presenting a method for evaluating the link between youth participation in entrepreneurship promotion initiatives, entrepreneurship and emigration attitudes, and also to check its validity. Research methodology – the quantitative test method presented in the article consists of 3 key parts that have their own specifics of evaluation and different methodologies. Findings – the results of the study did not show the correlation between the analyzed elements. Research limitations – although a method test made it possible to verify its suitability, a more representative sample of respondents is needed to provide valid results about the correlation of above mentioned 3 elements. Practical implications – based on the methodology evaluated, everyone familiar with the material will be able to initiate surveys and/or scientifically based researches at a different territorial level on youth entrepreneurship and emigration intentions and to evaluate the extent of the youth involvement in entrepreneurship promotion initiatives and its relationship with the entrepreneurial spirit of the individual. Originality/Value – this study contributed to the existing research on entrepreneurship, supplementing it with new insights on the existence of a relation between entrepreneurship promotion, entrepreneurship, and the tendency to emigrate, which, as far as the authors are aware, was researched neither in Lithuania nor globally

Highlights

Youth unemployment, “brain drain”, labour migration and the exclusion of disadvantaged − unemployed and not studying youth are among the major economic and social challenges of this decade for the many EU Member States, including Lithuania
There is a reason to believe that there is a correlation between the promotion of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, and the emigration intentions, which, to the authors’ knowledge, has been studied neither in Lithuania nor globally; 3) The importance of studying the relationship between entrepreneurship and emigration is beyond the scientific novelty of the topic, complementing existing research in the field of entrepreneurship with new observations, but the results show the tendencies of entrepreneurship and emigration attitudes of one of the most sensitive groups in society – those at risk of social exclusion and unemployed young people in one of the most depressed regions of Lithuania with youth decline and unemployment problems
The questionnaires received from respondents allowed to calculate the levels of entrepreneurship and emigration intentions, the values of which are presented in Table 1, according to demographic characteristics

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Introduction

“brain drain”, labour migration and the exclusion of disadvantaged − unemployed and not studying youth are among the major economic and social challenges of this decade for the many EU Member States, including Lithuania. Migration offers young people opportunities for personal growth, development, education, employment, and career start-ups, family life, high emigration flows threaten the economic and social development and stability of the sending country. According to data provided by the Science and Studies Monitoring and Analysis Center [MOSTA], the main characteristic of emigrants from Lithuania is that they did not work and did not learn before leaving (75% of all emigrants). Most often young people aged 16−29 are leaving the country, accounting for about half of all emigrants each year (MOSTA, n.d.). According to Pocius and Burneika (2017), unemployment is a major feature of problematic regions, the consequence of which is economic well-being and poverty, other socio-

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