Violeta Pukelienė

• Professor at Vytautas Magnus University

This article analyzes the impact of immigrants' educational attainment on employment in agricultural, industrial, and services sectors. The research compares data of OECD-20 countries in the period of 1980–2010. The goal of the paper is to analyze the theoretical interpretations of immigration and employment; to measure the impact of immigrants' ed...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the selected tax behaviour determinants for the overall tax (non) compliance in European Union countries for a period from 2003 to 2014. Firstly, the literature on tax behaviour is analysed through the viewpoint of behavioural economics and the systemisation of the main determinants is provided. Seco...

The digitalization of the world as a result of the introduction of computers, chips, and modern information and communication technologies has undoubtedly been the most important technological development of the past few decades. Since computers were introduced in the 1960s, the emergence of automation in the 1970s, the development of the Internet...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate a public services structure of Lithuania. A public services structure in the article is defined as Government expenditure‘s comparative distribution in Government incomes. According to Governments structure of expenditure on public services analysis, expenditure structure of Lithuania is closest with Latvi...

The concept of automation is presented in the article: historical stages of the development of automation, the meaning of the word “automation”, the spheres which are being automated. Both advantages and disadvantages of the automation as well as reasons for automation are distinguished in this article. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the...

The present article has focused on the theoretical and practical aspects of the measurement of quality of life by the quality of life index (IQOL). A special focus of the present article is placed on complexity of quality of life measurement. In the article, an integrated Quality of Life Measurement Model and IQOL are formulated on the basis of the...

Vyriausybės veikla pateisinama daugeliu argumentų. Tradicinės gerovės ekonomikos atstovai laikosi nuostatos, kad vyriausybė yra institucinis organas, kuris visuomenėje maksimizuoja socialinę gerovę. Kita vertus, viešojo pasirinkimo teorijos šalininkų teigimu, žmogiškos ydos verčia valdančiuosius nesielgti racionaliai, bet priešingai – pernelyg išpl...

The application of dynamic price and its modeling was an authentic revolution for the traditional concept of price setting in business environment. The article reviews the essence and the main principles of dynamic price as a bargaining basis. Dynamic price fluctuation range in this paper is collated with the zone of agreement and introduced as an...

The paper deals with regional economic differences: theoretical aspects of their causes, evaluation methods, and presents in empirical analysis of the EU countries. The β convergence methods were applied for empirical research. The results suggest that in most of the EU countries, regions were diverging during 1995– 2008. The recent territorial dif...

Measuring quality of life is currently at the forefront of the various fields of science. In spite of a great interest in quality of life and many attempts to measure it, there is no method of quality of life measurement, which is grounded methodologically and accepted generally. Quality of life remains a contested concept, which is measured in dif...

Macroeconomic theory says that taxes play a repressing role in an economy. Introduction of new forms of taxation, the increase of tax rates and augmentation of tax income of the Government puts a downturn risk on consumption and therefore on economic growth. Knowing that, governments of different countries start to competing among themselves by low...

An enterprise striving towards bigger profit first ofall must correspondingly manage internal conditionsforming and effectively use them, so that it could reduceproduction costs and achieve bigger economy on which theenterprise competitiveness depends. This task is solvedthrough corresponding enterprise management strategieswhich enable the enterpr...

In 2006 the publishing house “Kaunas Technologija” publishedthe textbook “Public Finance” by E. Buškevičiūtė. Textbook is ded icatedto bachelor and master students of social sciences studies andemployees from different enterprises and organizations. The textbookconsists of introduction, seven chapters, author’s final word, abbreviations,index, appe...

Higher education plays an important role in the economic system of Lithuania as free movement of education services and people contributes to the economic growth. The reforms, which began in 1990 and were divided into four relative phases, adhered to the principles of democratization, liberalization and integration into the European education syste...

Pasaulyje nėra šalies, kurios vyriausybė nereguliuotų vežamų per jos sienas prekių ir paslaugų srauto. Paprastai nustatomi įvairūs importo, kartais – eksporto ribojimai. Jais vyriausybės siekia įvairių politinių, ekonominių ar socialinių tikslų. Todėl nenuostabu, kad visoks ketinimas keisti prekybos reguliavimą kelia nesutarimų tarp skirtingų inter...

An increasing demand for computer-skilled “knowledge workers” in all areas of the economy becomes even more visible on a business administration level. Information technology in business administration concerns tasks and techniques which differ significantly form ones in other areas. Thus managers and administrators should be provided with computer...

Increased integration of the financial markets brought new forms and more global character of the crises episodes. A currency crisis, according to many economists, is a situation in which a currency experiences heavy exchange market pressure. Recent currency crises drawn attention, not only because of their increased frequency but because they have...