Open AccessDistribution of Wages in the Regions of the Czech Republic
Author(s) -
Eva Lajtkepová
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acta všfs/acta všfs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1802-7946
pISSN - 1802-792X
DOI - 10.37355/acta-2020/2-03
Subject(s) - decile , czech , wage , per capita , demographic economics , unemployment , economics , distribution (mathematics) , population , unemployment rate , labour economics , geography , demography , economic growth , sociology , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , linguistics
Regions as higher territorial self-governing units were established in the Czech Republicon the basis of Constitutional Act No. 347/1997 Coll. Their territory was delimited bythe territory of the listed districts. The regions show various differences in social,demographic, but naturally also economic development. The text focuses on differencesin the development of wages, covering the period of 2011–2018. Wages in all regionswere growing in these years, but this growth was not uniform: the lowest wages (the 1stdecile wages) were growing most, the highest wages (the 9th decile wages) showed thelowest growth. Four groups (clusters) of regions were identified by the cluster analysisaccording to the typical development of the lowest and the highest wages. In thesegroups, 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 (theshare of the population with basic and university education). The results of the correlationanalysis showed a moderate direct relationship between the economic level and the 9thdecile wages, a moderate to strong indirect dependence between the low wages of the1st decile and the unemployment rate, but the results of the correlation analysis betweenthe variables the educational level and wages were not very conclusive.