<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>University and college graduates do not represent just a highly skilled workforce. They are holders of a high level of education and they serve also as a component of human capital that have a high potential for increase productivity, create new jobs and discover new innovative production processes. This contribution deals with the concentration and dispersion of the production of university and college graduates of master level studies in Slovak cities, as holders of a high level of human capital. Examined were 41 of 46 fields of master level studies, which were assigned to 6 groups of studies. Within the overall production of graduates, there was observed a dispersion of production, because during the observed time period, between 1997 and 2015, the competition between cities in generating graduates of master level studies has increased. Within the production of individual groups of studies, the evolution was not so clear. In some groups of studies, the production of master level graduates has concentrated over the observed period time, in other groups the production has dispersed and in one group of studies the situation has not changed.</p></abstract>

University and college graduates do not represent just a highly skilled workforce. They are holders of a high level of education and they serve also as a component of human capital that have a high potential for increase productivity, create new jobs and discover new innovative production processes. This contribution deals with the concentration and dispersion of the production of university and college graduates of master level studies in Slovak cities, as holders of a high level of human capital. Examined were 41 of 46 fields of master level studies, which were assigned to 6 groups of studies. Within the overall production of graduates, there was observed a dispersion of production, because during the observed time period, between 1997 and 2015, the competition between cities in generating graduates of master level studies has increased. Within the production of individual groups of studies, the evolution was not so clear. In some groups of studies, the production of master level graduates has concentrated over the observed period time, in other groups the production has dispersed and in one group of studies the situation has not changed.

Spatial Aspects of University Graduates in Slovakia

Department of Public Administration and Regional Development, Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava

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University and college graduates do not represent just a highly skilled workforce. They are holders of a high level of education and they serve also as a...

Spatial Aspects of University Graduates in Slovakia

Published Online: Jan 23, 2017

Page range: 26 - 34

Received: Nov 01, 2016

Accepted: Dec 16, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0003

Keywords
regional development, universities, human capital, spatial concentration, cities, university graduates

© 2016 Oliver Rafaj et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Spatial Aspects of University Graduates in Slovakia

Published Online: Jan 23, 2017

Page range: 26 - 34

Received: Nov 01, 2016

Accepted: Dec 16, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0003

Keywordsregional development, universities, human capital, spatial concentration, cities, university graduates

© 2016 Oliver Rafaj et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
regional development, universities, human capital, spatial concentration, cities, university graduates