Publications - Monographs and Scientific Edited Books

The intention of the publication is to contribute expansion of knowledge in the field of income polarization and inequality in Slovakia. Studied are the connections that best represents the real disproportion at regional level and poses a threat to the deepening polarization and income inequality increase in terms of long run. The most serious endogenous determinants of potential deepening polarization in Slovakia are unemployment - especially long term unemployment, and an aging population. Slovakia varies between EU countries in the "head of the peleton" and differentiation rate of long-term unemployment within the country is very high in indicator of long-term unemployment. Since aging is also significant differences in the regions, we are interested in troubled regions of the profile, which may give clues about future polarization development. Deepening polarization is negative social phenomenon, which often leads to increased social tensions, to open conflict and disturbances.

By examining exogenous and endogenous effects on income polarization and inequality has gradually formed the opinion - an important role in the formation of structural problems and development of long-term unemployment in Slovakia present perfect "way" of transformation after 1989, significantly affected by changes in the world economy undergoing process of globalization by the growing power of multinational companies and later crisis conditions after 2008. The transformation scenario was created in an environment dominated by neoliberalism, remelted into so called Washington Consensus. Euphoria represented by indicators of convergence Slovakia and EU at macroeconomic level doesn’t share a substantial part of the population in the regions with no perspective to create new jobs, where you can talk about desocialization and depopulation, where is a high number of recipients the material need, poor employed and pensioners. The rediscovery of critical thinking is not only needed but also necessarily.