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LABOR MARKET
Presov is one of the regions most seriously stricken by unemployment. This might be, however, an advantage for foreign investors, due to the supply of cheap
workforce and possible higher subsidies from the Labour Office for every newly created job.
Out of the entire population, 24,8% are in pre-productive and 13,3% in post-productive age. The share of university-educated persons is 8.5%.
POPULATION AND WAGES
District Number of Average wage Average wage -
economically (Sk/month) workers
active inhabitants
(Sk/month)
As of As of As of
12/2001 09/2001 09/2001
Bardejov 38 112 8270 6930
Humenné 31 518 10886 9533
Kežmarok 33 593 8975 7134
Levoča 14 506 8931 7357
Medzilaborce 6 165 9104 8211
Poprad 52 043 11515 10115
Prešov 77 845 10345 8751
Sabinov 27 080 8573 7190
Snina 18 691 9283 8033
Stará Ľubovňa 22 997 8773 7384
Stropkov 9 632 8408 6997
Svidník 15 820 8368 6665
Vranov nad Topľou 36 785 9157 8332
Region Prešov 384 787 9891 8458
Source: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic and National Labour Office
UNEMPLOYMENT (12/2001)
Unemployment Number of Of which Of which
District rate unemployed women graduates
% people
Bardejov 24,68 9405 4209 333
Humenné 24,94 7861 3470 429
Kežmarok 31,25 10497 4466 321
Levoča 26,20 3800 1577 147
Medzilaborce 26,07 1607 665 58
Poprad 20,66 10753 4895 466
Prešov 23,80 18530 7698 842
Sabinov 28,65 7758 3425 268
Snina 27,95 5225 2335 250
Stará Ľubovňa 19,89 4573 2193 218
Stropkov 27,26 2626 1158 107
Svidník 24,60 3891 1680 180
Vranov nad Topľou 30,10 11071 4509 462
Region Prešov 25,36 97597 42280 4081
Source: National Labour Office
REGION PREŠOV - UNEMPLOYMENT PEOPLE BY
THE EDUCATION (09/2001)
Secondary education
62%
Source: National Labour Office
Basic education
35%
University
3%
TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
The region has relatively well-developed railway
and road networks. There is one international
airport in Poprad, used for charter flights. The
regional centre Presov is 40 km away from the
second most important airport of Slovakia in
Kosice.
The region is covered by a relatively dense road
network consisting of highways and international
roads, as well as local roads. The total length of
class I roads and highways is 560 and 13.5km,
respectively. Two main routes, one in the westeast
direction (Zilina-Kosice-Ukraine) and the
second in the north-south direction (Poland-
Presov-Kosice-Hungary) form the skeleton of the
railway system.
The providers of telephone services are Slovenské
Telekomunikácie – fixed phones, Eurotel and
Globtel – mobile phones. Telecommunication
services are unified throughout Slovakia. The
prices of gas and electricity are also the same in
the whole of Slovakia.
The prices of water supply and sewage are
independent and vary between individual districts.
In Prešov, the price of water supply is 23.00 Sk
per m 3 and the price of sewage 17.00Sk per m 3
(12/2001). The mentioned prices are exclusive of
10% VAT.
EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITIES
There are more than 480 elementary schools and
125 secondary schools in the region.
The educational centre of the region is the town
of Presov, with the faculties of two universities –
the newly established University of Presov and
the Technical University Kosice.