CHANGES IN DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN CONDITIONS IN SLOVAKIA

One of the determinants of economic performance is the rate of using of manpower, which we can quantify by various indicators. One indicator is the unemployment rate, a new term in the national economy after 1990, as a result of radical changes associated with the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. A period which significantly affected the unemployment rate in Slovakia was the global economic crisis whose full implications are showed in the period 20092010 in Slovakia. The aim of the paper is comparison of districts in terms of changes in the registered unemployment rate as a result of changes in the proportion of economically active population and foreign direct investment in the period 2009-2014. This figures created the input for the application of cluster analysis in SAS software. For the clusters was used an average linkage method. The analysis confirmed the existence disparities respectively deepening the disparity between districts in terms of the potential workforce, quantified registered unemployment rate, the share of economically active population and flows of foreign direct investment.