Indre Genelyte

Linköping University | LiU · Ageing and Social Change (ASC)

This report covers key aspects of late working life issues in Sweden. Chapter 1 presents key statistical data for population structure and demographic processes in Sweden as well as labour market participation among the older groups of the population. It maps the main political economic discourses that frame late working life and brings in some...

The labour market activity of older workers and their ability and disposition to maintain it depend on institutional conditions, age norms, labour demand and shifting overall economic conditions. The paper discusses exclusion and inequality in later working life from a European comparative perspective and emphasises shifts in late work and retireme...

This chapter aims to make both theoretical and empirical contributions to the better understanding of intra-European migration from New Member States (NMS) to Old Member States (OMS ). It does so by addressing Lithuanian migration to Sweden from the perspective of the sending country and the testimony of the migrants themselves. It aims to explain...

This article connects micro and macro scales of inequality to Lithuanians’ decisions to depart to Sweden during the economic crisis with austerity measures and its aftermath (2008–2013). This period revealed unequal opportunities regarding the quality of life that were largely created by the gradual re-commodification of labor as well as unaddresse...

This thesis seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of intra-EU mobility, with a focus on labour migration from Lithuania to Sweden. Inspired by a critical realist perspective, the thesis aims to help to explain the dynamics and individual decision-making behind mass labour emigration from the Baltic states,...

At a time when migration policy has moved to the centre of national and European policy agendas, the three Baltic states are taking their first steps towards building a cohesive policy response to emigration. This is especially important in the wake of the global financial crisis, which generated an increased outflow from the Baltic states. The Bal...