Comparison of the Economic Activity Rate of Population in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic

Dana Országhová – Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Economics and Management, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Abstract: The rate of economic activity of the population is one of the in­dicators of the state of the labour force. Indicator values are also depend­ent on the demographic development of the population in productive age. The paper aims to compare the development of the rate of economic activ­ity of the population in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic with­in the period 2000–2020. The research sample was created from the data­bases of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Statisti­cal Office and evaluated using the methods of descriptive statistics and re­gression analysis. Results proved that the economic activity rate of the pop­ulation is threatened in the long term in both countries. In the period 2000- 2020, the economic activity rate in Slovakia decreased by 1.3%. The analy­sis of the development of this indicator in the Czech Republic (period 2000- 2020) showed that the economic activity rate increased by 4.82%.

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