Impact of Selected Regional Indicators on the Proportion of Successful Self-Employers and New Self-Employers at the District Level of Slovakia

Self-employment support can be analysed in the context of labour market or self-employment sustainability. However, it is also useful to see how regional factors can affect the share of the supported self-employed in all new self-employed at the time of the start of self-employment. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of selected regional indicators at the start of business on the share of the supported self-employed in all new self-employed during the period 2013–2015 in districts of Slovakia. We analysed our data using linear regression with some of the independent variables in logarithms. Our results show that higher average district population density (2013–2015) has a positive impact on the proportion of the supported self-employed (2 to 3 years of self-employment since signing the support agreement) in the total number of the new self-employed and logarithm of the average nominal wage has a negative effect.