Distribution of Wages in the Regions of the Czech Republic
Regions as higher territorial self-governing units were established in the Czech Republic on the basis of Constitutional Act No. 347/1997 Coll. Their territory was delimited by the territory of the listed districts. The regions show various differences in social, demographic, but naturally also e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Finance and Administration
2020-11-01
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| Series: | ACTA VŠFS |
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| Online Access: | https://www.vsfs.cz/periodika/acta-2020-2-03.pdf |
| Summary: | Regions as higher territorial self-governing units were established in the Czech Republic
on the basis of Constitutional Act No. 347/1997 Coll. Their territory was delimited by
the territory of the listed districts. The regions show various differences in social,
demographic, but naturally also economic development. The text focuses on differences
in the development of wages, covering the period of 2011–2018. Wages in all regions
were growing in these years, but this growth was not uniform: the lowest wages (the 1st
decile wages) were growing most, the highest wages (the 9th decile wages) showed the
lowest growth. Four groups (clusters) of regions were identified by the cluster analysis
according to the typical development of the lowest and the highest wages. In these
groups, we focused on typical factors of the wage level formation: the economic level
(measured as GDP per capita), the unemployment rate and the educational level (the
share of the population with basic and university education). The results of the correlation
analysis showed a moderate direct relationship between the economic level and the 9th
decile wages, a moderate to strong indirect dependence between the low wages of the
1st decile and the unemployment rate, but the results of the correlation analysis between
the variables the educational level and wages were not very conclusive. |
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| ISSN: | 1802-792X 1802-7946 |