<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Paper is focused on regional disparities and structural changes of economies of the V4 countries: the Slovak Republic and Hungary. The results have shown increasing regional differences between the capital regions, including their adjacent areas and the rest of the countries in case of both countries, based on empirical data and documented by the Lorenz curve. We can also observe an increasing difference between Western and Eastern areas of both countries. In terms of structural changes in the economy during the analyzed period 2001-2009, we can see a substantial shift in employment from primary sector (agriculture etc.) mainly to tertiary sector (services etc.) and also to secondary sector (industry etc.). The results are based on empirical data from secondary sources</p></abstract>

Paper is focused on regional disparities and structural changes of economies of the V4 countries: the Slovak Republic and Hungary. The results have shown increasing regional differences between the capital regions, including their adjacent areas and the rest of the countries in case of both countries, based on empirical data and documented by the Lorenz curve. We can also observe an increasing difference between Western and Eastern areas of both countries. In terms of structural changes in the economy during the analyzed period 2001-2009, we can see a substantial shift in employment from primary sector (agriculture etc.) mainly to tertiary sector (services etc.) and also to secondary sector (industry etc.). The results are based on empirical data from secondary sources

Regional Disparities and their Reasons. Comparative Analysis of Slovakia and Hungary

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia

Acta Regionalia et Environmentalica

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

Paper is focused on regional disparities and structural changes of economies of the V4 countries: the Slovak Republic and Hungary. The results have shown...

Regional Disparities and their Reasons. Comparative Analysis of Slovakia and Hungary

Publicado en línea: 11 mar 2015

Páginas: 64 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aree-2014-0011

Palabras clave
production factors, centrally planned economy, market economy, structural changes

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

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

Regional Disparities and their Reasons. Comparative Analysis of Slovakia and Hungary

Publicado en línea: 11 mar 2015

Páginas: 64 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aree-2014-0011

Palabras claveproduction factors, centrally planned economy, market economy, structural changes

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

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

Palabras clave
production factors, centrally planned economy, market economy, structural changes