Changes in the Educational Structure of the Workforce in Slovakia and Its Regions

Abstract

Educational attainment plays a critical role in everybody’s em­ployment options. Education determines human development, and affects the economic development of countries. For this reason, the education­al structure of the population has long been considered an important in­dicator of the overall maturity and development of the country. In connec­tion with technical progress and the use of advanced technologies, the de­mands for tertiary education attainment in the workforce are growing. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate changes in the structure of the work­force in terms of educational attainment in the Slovak Republic and to find the relationship between the educational attainment and economic perfor­mance of the regions of the Slovak Republic. The educational attainment of the workforce in the Slovak Republic is developing positively. However, sig­nificant regional differences have been identified, and it is possible to see a big gap between the Region of Bratislava and the remaining Slovak regions. In recent years, there has been a marked improvement in the educational attainment of the workforce in the Region of Košice. Tertiary education at­tainment of the workforce has an impact on the creation of regional gross domestic product per capita