How do Czech Rural Regions Cope with the Recent Economic Crisis? Evidence Derived from Unemployment Development
Abstract
The outbreak of the recent economic cr isis and the follo wing economic reco very stimulate questions of exist- ing resistance and endogenous capacity on national as well as regional level to cope with such an external shock. In our example, we specifically focus on rural LAU 1 region s as those that are traditionally considered to be more vulnerable to such events.
For the purpos e of provided analyses, we operate with variables describing the development of unemployment within the period 2008-2013. The results do not support the existence of significantly more vulnerable rural areas as a category of regions whereas they refer to heterogeneous endogenous capacity on the level of individual rural regions that affects th eir resistance to the crisis.