GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE STANDARD OF LIVINT IN THE SR

The impact of globalization on the quality of life remains an up-to-date problem, although term of the quality of life is extremely wide and is cause of the considerable problems for researchers. For that reason, we were also forced to reduce the issue and concentrate only on one part of it, which is the standard of living. Up to now, there are theoretical dilemmas in identifying of the quality of life and the standard of living; even some authors do not see differences between them. From our perspective, the standard of living is one of the subcategories of the quality of life. In the methodological field, we can find a rich elaboration of methods of measurement, of both: globalization and the quality of life, respectively of the standard of living. There exist the different forms of indexes that allow quantify not only the situation within a country but also to compare with the situation of other countries. In our paper, we focus, besides theory and methodology, on an empirical analysis of the relations between globalization and the standard of living in the Slovak Republic. At the same time, we focus on a certain field of the standard of living, and that on consumption. Through the data of 15-years period, we deduce not only on the global manifestations of globalization and on the standard of living, but also on their interconnection, even in their individual components, which enriches previous research.