Slopes and Slides: Spatial Inequalities in Employment Opportunities at the Turn of the Millennium

Abstract

The paper seeks to analyse the vigorous spatial processes of the 1990, focusing on on-the-spot and distant employment opportunities. The first part examines indicators revealing the social structure of villages on the basis of settlement categories according to population size. The second part reveals the impact zones and integrative abilities of dynamic core areas, towns and cities. This is the basis the typology of statistical micro-regions are built on. Geographical location of settlements, their distance from dynamic centres and the accessibility of such centres were identified as determinants of integrated or peripheral position, absorption capacities as well as employment opportunities of various spatial units.