tertiarisation in Slovakia

economic structure. One of the crucial problems is high rate of unemployment namely in the regions that collapsed in many branches of production. Despite dynamic economic changes, the rate of unemployment did not raise so high, as the increasing development of tertiary sphere absorbed the striking flow of unemployment in the primary and secondary sector. The paper analyses how has changed the macroeconomic structure of Slovakia on the regional level with accent on the the expansion of the service sector. Transition process is closely connected with restructuring process. From managing of this process depends if Slovakia will capture the global wave of changes from industrial to advanced services, but not only on the country level but also in their regional dimension. 1