Migration Trends Among Regional clusters in Slovakia

Martin Janotka; Vladimir Gazda; Denis Horvath

doi:10.5755/j01.ee.24.5.3377

Authors

Martin Janotka University of Economics, Faculty of Business Economy.
Vladimir Gazda The Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Economics.
Denis Horvath The Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Economics.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.24.5.3377

Keywords:

Migration flows, Principal components, Clusters, Analysis of variance, Migration prognosis, Migration enforcements

Abstract

The presented study comprises the view on migration in depending on the development level of the region. The development is characterized not only by economic dimension, but expertise also includes social and demographic aspects to gain an overall perspective on the internal regional conditions. With the help of principal component analysis and cluster analysis, we identified homogenous clusters (sets of nearly equally developed districts). Using Kruskall-Wallis test, we have uncovered statistically significant differences among migration flows within given clusters. When considering a migration, two clusters exhibiting apparent differences from others have been detected: the exceptional cluster consisting of large cities districts and cluster of the districts surrounding the capital of Slovakia. Furthermore, for clusters identified in such a way and corresponding to them migration parameters, the cluster-based model has been proposed. Using this, we identified population dynamic trends for the next thirty years. We end by investigating the class of optimally selected migration enforcements (regional migration policies), which may prevent from the depopulation of less favored clusters of districts.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.24.5.3377

Author Biographies

Martin Janotka, University of Economics, Faculty of Business Economy.

After the University study, Martin Janotka started to work as a financial consultant. Later, he joined Department of finance at Municipal Office in Poprad. Here, he found regional policy and regional science as very necessary fields of study, especially in Slovakia. That was the main reason and impulse for his PhD. study at University of Economics (Faculty of Business Economy, Department of Economics) and topic of his dissertation thesis ‘ Modelling of interregional migration in Slovakia for the needs of businesses strategic decisions’. Now, although working in different field as a software test analyst for trading at energy markets, the above mentioned regional science toghether with spatial econometrics remain still the main subjects of his research.

- Science field:

Regional science,
Migration
Spatial Econometrics

Vladimir Gazda, The Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Economics.

Assoc.prof. Ing. Vladimír Gazda, PhD. started his scientific career at the Faculty of Business Administration - University of Economics in Košice
(Slovakia). After finishing his PhD. studies in the field of Operations Research and Econometrics, he was involved into the research area exploiting the quantitative techniques. That time, he spent his research stays at the Erazmus University in Roterdamm and Aristoteles University in
Thessaloniki.
Now, he is working as a lecturer at the Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics, Technical University in Kosice (Slovakia). Currently, he is providing lectures in Microeconomics, Game Theory and Econometrics. He published 14 papers in journals listed in the Scopus and SSCI databases.

- Science field:

Econometrics
Game theory

Denis Horvath, The Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Economics.

Assoc.prof. RNDr. Denis Horváth, CSc. started his scientific career as physicist - theoretician active in the field of statistical physics, theory of complex systems and computer simulations. His works devoted to developed turbulence has been published by the prominent Physical Journals. He worked for Institute of Experimental Physics SAS Košice. Since 1997 he served at P.J. Šafárik University of Košice as a scientific fellow and lecturer of newly forming topic econophysics in which he successfully supervised two PhD students. He spent several scientific stages abroad: in Joint Institute for Nuclear Research JINR Dubna, (Russia), University of Helsinki, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (Trieste, Italy), University of Lodz (Poland). Two years 2008-2010 he spent at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, Orleans (French academy of science). His research has been devoted to chemical physics and computational models of the biomolecular systems has been sponsored by the grant from the LeStudium Institute for Advanced Studies. Next two years he spent two years by working for private company Sors Research a.s. on the project in creating systems and models for algorithmic trading. Nowadays, he is a lecturer/associate professor in the subject of mathematical economics and multivariational statistics in the Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics Technical University Košice. Presently, his scientific research focuses on the nonlinear methods of the financial time-series analysis and agent-based simulations in the field of the computational economics and particularly econophysics. Despite field of his interests would seem to be too broad, he has always highly benefited from the multifaceted research experience and cross disciplinary creative thinking. He published 62 CC journal papers.

- Science field: