Regional Differences in the Dynamics of Industrial Employment in Slovakia in the Years 1980 and 2001 Cover Image

Regionálne rozdiely vo vývoji priemyselnej zamestnanosti na Slovensku v rokoch 1980 a 2001
Regional Differences in the Dynamics of Industrial Employment in Slovakia in the Years 1980 and 2001

Author(s): Vladimír Székely
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: industry; industrial centres; regional differentiation of industrial employment; Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: Industry used to be the decisive branch of Slovakia’s national economy until 1989. The aim of the article is to point to regional aspects of de-industrialising process in Slovakia by means of calculation of size of industrial centres (indus-trial centres represent the basic units of industrial regionalisation) and their share in regional employment for two time horizons. Comparison of regional differences of industrial employment in the pre-transition and post-transition periods shows a persisting spatial inertia in the distribution of industry. In spite of uniqueness of some impacts of transition process on the life of society, two basic spatial dichotomies survive in the regional structure of industry in Slova-kia: west – east and core – periphery.

  • Issue Year: 53/2005
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 283-295
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak