Regional Unemployment Patterns in Visegrad Countries
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Regional Unemployment Patterns in Visegrad Countries
Original language description
Regional disparities have become a debated topic in the last two decades. Aim of this paper is to estimate trends in regional disparities at the level NUTS 2 during the period 2000-2009. This paper looks at unemployment in four Visegrad group countries and its persistence over time. It also attempts to identify the factors responsible for this persistence. The first part of the paper offers a review of different approaches to regional disparities measurement. Regional trends are measured mainly using avariety of approaches the coefficient of variation, the Herfindahl index or the Geographic concentration index. The second part of the paper is based on empirical data and calculations of the indexes or the coefficients. Unemployment rates and number ofunemployed paper are used for calculations. From the analysis we can see remarkable differences between regions. Moreover, regional unemployment disparities across Visegrad group countries appear to be characterized by a high degree of pe
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AH - Economics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GP402%2F09%2FP142" target="_blank" >GP402/09/P142: Institutional labour market framework in the context of economic convergence and adopting single currency (application on Visegrád group)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
International Proceedings of Economics Development and Research
ISBN
978-981-08-8720-9
ISSN
2010-4626
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Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
203-207
Publisher name
INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS
Place of publication
SINGAPORE
Event location
Singapore
Event date
Jan 1, 2011
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000303217400039