Attractiveness of the Czech regions: Does economic and social welfare matter?

Abstract

The main objective of this paper targets to the relationship between attractiveness of the Czech regions for living on one hand and economic and social conditions of the Czech regions on the other. In accord with this objective, the net migration scores of the regions is evaluated, as well as three indicators related to economic and social welfare – employment rate, criminality rate and quality of housing. Methodological approach is based on descriptive, comparative and correlation analyses and PCA analysis. The empirical results provide some evidence on the positive relationship between net migration scores and employment rate. The other empirical results are ambiguous.