Resilience of the Czech Regions to an external economic shock

• Authors: Lungová Miroslava
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article explores resilience of the Czech NUTS3-level regions to an external economic shock in the form of the latest global economic crisis of 2008-2009. It begins with a brief introduction of the concept of resilience and of terminological and methodological issues associated with operationalizing it. Next, regional resistance to the external economic shock is assessed using sensitivity indices of relative output and employment contractions. Finally, the nature and severity of the shock as well as regional disparities in recoverability are investigated using employment data.

Keywords

EN

resilience; region economic shock; downturn; sensitivity; recession; Czech regions

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4(66)
• Pages: 30-47

Contributors

author

Lungová Miroslava

• Technical University of Liberec, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics,

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499546602