CONVERGENCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT RATES OF TERTIARY EDUCATED IN NUTS 3 REGIONS OF THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC

The employment and also unemployment of tertiary educated graduates is an object of interest and also research of many social groups across the national and also international spectrum. In this study, we focus on employment and unemployment of tertiary educated graduates in individual NUTS 3 regions of the Slovak and Czech Republic. The data obtained from Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic and also Czech Statistical Office were compared and used by method of Beta convergence, where all the regions were divided into four quadrants, through which we observed their mutual convergence. The correlation diagrams point to the location of the region Presovsky, Banskobystricky, Bratislavsky, Kosicky (Slovakia) and Moravskoslezsky, Olomoucky, Jihomoravsky, Zlinsky and Hl. mesto Praha (Czechia) in the first quadrant - with above-average initial value and above-average growth value related to unemployment of tertiary educated graduates. On the other hand, related to employment of tertiary educated graduates, the first quadrant was represented by Slovak regions Bratislavsky and Presovsky, in conditions of the Czech Republic by Stredocesky, Hl. mesto Praha, Jihomoravsky and Moravskoslezsky. The third quadrant - with below-average value and below-average growth value was represented in both measurements by Trnavsky and Nitriansky region (Slovakia) and by Liberecky, Pardubicky, Kralovehradecky and Karlovarsky region (Czechia).