Socio-economic characteristics of the Slovak Republic according to the OECD criteria
1998
Buchta, S. (Narodny Urad Prace, Bratislava (Slovak Republic))
The regionalisation of the Slovak Republic according to the OECD criteria is presented. According to the OECD typology the country can be divided into three regions: 1, rural regions, formed by 33 districts and inhabited by 36.2% of the population; 2, semi-rural regions, represented by 37 districts with 50.9% of the population; and 3, urban regions, formed by 9 districts of Kosice and Bratislava with 12.9% of the population. The analysis of selected indicators confirmed that with the increase of urbanisation the share of non-productive population decreases and the share of the productive population increases. The lowest share of productive population is in rural regions; employment in agriculture concentrates in the smallest rural settlements, and the rate of unemployment - including long-term - cumulates to the rural regions. The highest inter-regional attendance to work concentrates in the urban regions. Retail trade moves to purchasing power, and therefore also commercial services concentrate in urban areas. The metropolis urbanism and process of sub-urbanism will meet certain threshold barriers. Free development potential and certain comparative advantages of small, medium and less developed regions will lure free capital. It will support strategies and transformation especially in connection with the gradual integration of the Slovak Republic into the European economic structures
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