Employment Analysis in the Creative Industries in Slovakia: Spatial and Temporal Evolution in the Years 2001-2010
Employment Analysis in the Creative Industries in Slovakia: Spatial and Temporal Evolution in the Years 2001-2010

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the measurement and analysis of creative industries as well as the employment of the creative class, with the aim of identifying and comparing creative regional centres in Slovakia. The overall regional employment of the creative class is defined as the percentage of employees of the super-creative core and creative professionals in relation to the total number of employees in a region and/or district. Regional projections show that the employment increase in creative industries is closely associated with the growth of the ICT industry mostly in the Bratislava and Košice regions. The opposite trend prevails in the class of the creative professionals – a gradual decline in employment is caused mainly by reducing numbers of jobs in the public sector – especially in the education and health sectors. The regional employment in the creative industries is captured using NACE (Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community) statistics for the period of 2001 - 2008. The leading creative industries are identified and analysed using location quotients by comparing employment in the regions with national average employment. According to all criteria such as sectoral employment, formation of the firms in the creative industries and their concentration, the principal Slovak creative centre is Bratislava and the metropolitan Bratislava region. The narrower concept of cultural and creative industries is studied based on the 2010 statistics at regional and district levels. The analysis of the industries shifted more to cultural economic activities, confirming the dominant position of the city-region of Bratislava as a creative centre, followed by the city-region of Košice, confirmed by the measuring of the concentration of firms in the creative industries. A new approach is applied to ascertain both the creative class and the creative industries more properly using the matrix combination of NACE and ISCO (The International Standard Classification of Occupations) statistics.

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