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This article aims to compare selected parameters of quality of life in the European Union countries by the degree of urbanisation of living space and to verify the validity of three hypotheses aimed at quality of life evaluation in rural EU areas. The primary data source is the Eurostat statistical data. Comparative analysis, variability, and concentration analysis using the method of adjusted index of geographical concentration have been applied during the processing. The analysis results show that the degree of risk of poverty "is split" in the EU between rural areas and cities. In this respect, European countries are divided into two roughly equal groups. The degree of concentration of people at risk of poverty in rural areas exceeds half the attainable interval. The extent of the actual geographic concentration of the population, and at the same time, the disparities existing between European countries are both involved in it. Cost and quality of housing show the highest variability within European rural areas. The findings are compliant with those experts who plead for a more effective tool targeting of EU cohesion policy in pursuit of its objectives in the field of poverty reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is both to evaluate the relationship between population density and intensity of crime (in general), as well as the relationship between the expenditure on security and public order per capita, crime rate, and tying funds to a crime (on a sample of municipalities in the Pardubice Region). The relationship between population density and crime intensity is examined in European regions using two Eurostat typologies. Further examining relationships are judged by linear regression analysis, the dispersion and relations among standardized values of selected parameters, i.e. operating expenditures of municipal budgets spent in the area of security and public order per citizen, modified crime rate index, and tying of financial means to one criminal act. Although the direct proportion between population density and crime intensity has been demonstrated, the population of the municipality is not critical to the amount of its security and public order expenditure. Identified relations among the evaluated parameters are not completely analogous, the research has pointed to four different approaches in terms of solving the issues of security and public order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In evaluating the material side of life, housing finds first among the three indicators - housing, income, and job. In the Czech Republic, housing is seen as the primary responsibility of the individual, but the state (region, municipality) is responsible for creating conditions, which enable individuals to fulfill their right to housing. The aim of this paper is to assess the differentiation factors of housing and their changes in the Czech regions in the ten year period, between 2001 and 2011. The differentiation factors are divided into two groups based on size and technical equipment. Their correlation with regional gross domestic product per capita, regional variability and change in relative positions of the sum of the standardized indicator values of the Czech regions are evaluated. It was found that regional differentiation factors of housing do not correlate with the formation of wealth significantly; variability of indicators of housing in the Czech regions decreases over time; while the relative position in most regions in this direction is changing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Properly structuring of industrial investment can increase the competitiveness and innovation potential of each region markedly; and results in welfare increasing. The intention of this study wasn't evaluating the allocation of investment but develops the method of gaining the regional disaggregated data of industrial investment. Such data are valuable for further regional development analysis, nevertheless the two dimensional matrix of regional investment in industrial structure for many regions, i.e. Czech NUTS III regions is not available at the moment. The aim of this paper is to present the developed methodology of values estimation within the industrial structure at regional level; to verify this principle on the sample of Slovak regions and to apply the methodology on Czech regions over sixteen years period between 1995 and 2010. Due to many limitations and accuracy requirements of such an approach, the presented method cannot be applied to reliably disaggregation of whole regional industrial investment structure. Still we found an evidence to believe, that the method is applicable on the industries and industrial groups of construction; financial and insurance activities; trade, transportation, accommodation and food services; and public sector services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cohesion policy belongs among the most important fields of EU interests. Its objectives are achieved by many ways with respect to diversity among the European regions at the level of NUTS 2. The aim of this paper is to analyse relevant indicators, and via the evaluation of EU regional policy effectiveness to rewiev difference in the production-consumption patterns of behaviour of European regions; focussing on convergence and variabiliness of these regions. With defined goal in mind, the regions have been classified. To classify the regions, the relational indicator has been created. The relational indicator has been developed as the relationship between the index of relative performance and index of relative consumption sources. The changes of relational indicator, as well as the GDP per capita criterion, have been evaluated in two periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Textile and clothing industry are two from the industries, which are affected by globalization processes extremely. In terms of historical development, these industries of the sectors of light industry belong to the major pillars of the Czech economy. The article focuses on assessing the impact of globalization on the economic security of the textile and clothing industry of the Czech Republic and the economic security of the regions where enterprises of mentioned industries operate, namely in the period of globalization. It shows that economic security of industry has absolute and relative dimensions, which are reflected on economic security of regions subsequently. To assess of the economic security are selected performance indicators (sales) and employment, the attention is paid to the period 1975-2012, with particular emphasis on the period 1995-2005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results of the regional analysis of career structures in Pardubice Region, specifically the section of professions with university education. However, it touches some of the current issues in university education mission and legitimacy of relevant employers' expectations as well. The field research contains not only quantitative data about the current occupational structure of employees and economic characteristics of employers; but it is focused on e. g. the threat of saturation of certain professions due to higher age; missing study fields, changes in the requirements for qualification in connection with the introduction of new technologies, expansion or reduction production. The article shows the rate of professionals with university education in the Pardubice Region by sector and their internal structure. It presents the views of the Pardubice Regions employers over the future requirements of university -educated workers; evaluates the relevance of these views for decision-making regarding to the selected parameters: stability and performance of respondents as economic entities. It reflects the structure of study fields at the University of Pardubice as the main institution for saturation of the regional labour market needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides selected information about the performance of the Czech medical spa industry, as well as the various types of stay available and their respective costs. It reveals the specific ways of how medical spa care is financed in the Czech Republic and resumes that financing methods diverge from using the public finance sources towards the private ones. In this article is developed a special model to enable easy categorization, which allows the reader to quickly ascertain fundamental information on relative attributes of spa industry. The created model is usable for marketing communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The extent of social services industry increases both in the Czech Republic and worldwide; its importance in national economy and society rises, especially in the connection with demographic development in the last period. The industry appears as a quasi-network with specific product standing between pure private and pure public product; this corresponds its financing and providing. Its aims is to record position of social care services as sub-industry of the Czech national economy, to take a think on the kind of product carried out by them, as well as on the financing ways of these services, to judge regional distribution of these capabilities and financial resources in the Czech Republic, and to verify an adequacy of distribution of these services in particular regions, inch sources utilization of their financing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research and innovation influence economic performance and competitiveness strongly. This area is in the spotlight of national governments, as well as the European Commission. This article aims to assess the economic development of two countries of the former Czechoslovakia during the period 1970 -2009 by GDP per capita, investment and share the drivers and welfare industries, and compare the support of research and innovation activities in both countries. The support of research and innovation is evaluated in the form of institutional support, direct funding and indirect support. It shows that the evaluated economies have some features analogous, but in some parameters, there are differences. However, the ways to improve the condition seem to be in terms of membership in the EU alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]