March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
16h 47m
English
Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
ABSTRACT: Self-employment represents an important part of the Slovak economy. It is also one of the areas most affected by COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the article is to analyze the short-term effects of COVID-19 pandemic on self-employment (represented by tradesmen) in Slovakia. The article focuses on the number of newly established trades, number of terminated trades, including number of bankrupted trades in the period from 2017 to 2021. The article also analyses the total unemployment rate in pre-COVID period (second half of 2019) and in the COVID period ...