REGIONAL LABOUR MARKET DISPARITIES IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

The theme of regional policy and regional development is one of the topics that are coming to the forefront in present time. This is mainly due to the fact that in the Slovak Republic there are visible large regional disparities in different parts of the territory. The largest regional differences are visible especially by comparing west / northwest and east / southeast parts of Slovakia. The aim of the paper is to analyse and evaluate the regional disparities of labour market in the Slovak Republic. We study regional differences and its interconnection with labour market indicators. We integrate each Slovak territory according to various labour market indicators into developed or problematic regions. We look at differentiation not only in geographic terms but also in terms of time. We find which regional disparities have a tendency to persist, increase or equalize (divergence or convergence theory). For analysing and evaluating of regional disparities we apply methods of multi-criteria evaluation.