Knowledge-intensive business services accounted for a rapid growth in transition economies after 1989. The growth in value added outpaced growth in employment, which indicated increasing labour productivity in this sector. Studies based on input--output tables found that development of business...

This paper analyses trends in regional polarization in Slovakia on the NUTS II and NUTS IV levels for the period 1985--2002 from the neo-classical and polarization approaches to regional development. Development of disparities in regional incomes was examined via an econometric model. The model...