Diploma thesis deals with the position of social contributions in the tax systems of the member states of the European Union. The main aim of this thesis is to compare the position of social contributions in the tax systems of the member states of the European Union using selected indicators and to find groups of states with similar characteristics and similar position of social contributions in tax systems. A cluster analysis was used to analyse the social contributions in 2007 and 2016. Source data was taken from Eurostat database. The cluster analysis defined groups of states where the position of social contributions in relation to the tax system is most similar. The thesis shows that the position of social contributions in the tax systems of the member states of the European Union did not change much during the period under review. Changes in the development of social contributions position can be expected in the future in connection with the population aging. Given the expected pressure on social contributions, which is expected to grow in the future, the achievement of public finances at a sustainable level needs to be ensured. Therefore, possible solutions are proposed in the thesis.

Diploma thesis is dealing with evaluation of changes in tax systems of European countries in the time of 2000-2012. Especially it focuses on changes in the tax systems of European states occurred after the outbreak of the financial crisis, using cluster analysis are explored similarities in the tax systems of European countries. Another part is trying to capture the effect of parameters of the tax systems on selected macroeconomic indicators (GDP, investment, savings, foreign direct investment).

The thesis compares investment criteria influencing investors in capital allocation. Primary aim of the paper is using the regression analysis to identify the investment and taxation criteria. To identify such criteria I used cluster analysis to select the EU countries to perform the regression analysis on. The final part of the thesis utilizes swat analysis to point out weak and strong points, opportunities and risks of the destinations. Concluding the thesis the EU country appearing as the best choice for the investment is going to be presented.

The subject of the thesis is an analysis of selected demographic and economic indicators of the Slovak Republic as well as for individual regions between 2003 and 2013. The analysis of the Slovak Republic was divided into three main parts: a demographic analysis of population and its structure by age, gender and economic groups. The next part deals with the analysis of selected economic indicators for particular regions. In the last part there is cluster analysis and its results are compared with the results of the convergence analysis.

MARTA, A. Geopolitical Position of Caucasus. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University. Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, 2015. Thesis Supervisor Mgr. Lukáš Nevěděl, Ph.D. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is especially concerned with introduction of political geography and geopolitics as independents sciences, with history of Caucasus, his physical-geographic character and conflicts in Caucasian unstable regions. This part is after all closed up by determination of Caucasian martial-protective, economical and energetic relationships with nearby states. Analogous to theoretical part, the practical part is also divided into two parts, quantitative and qualitative. Whilst quantitative part's focusing on region's geopolitical dispensation and religious or language diversity, that qualitative on the contrary point out the Caucasian social side and everyday life within it.

The aim of the thesis is to analyse the demographic, economic a social indicators in the local district of region Vysocina in 2007 and 2013. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on a literary review of resources with the description of economic, demographic and social indicators. In practical part local districts were divided by cluster analysis into clusters, in which economic situation, demographic characteristics and social situation were assesed. According to the findings of the evaluation, regions were divided into different clusters, from strongest to weakest. Recommendations for improvement in underdeveloped regions are made in the end of the thesis.

Regional consequences of Economic and Financial crisis in Greece, Brno, 2016. 118 p. Diploma thesis. Mendel university in Brno. The diploma thesis focuses on impacts of the financial and economic crisis on thirteen NUTS 2 regions of Greece. The objective of the diploma thesis is to investigate whether the crisis affected the process of convergence or divergence among Greek regions. For this purpose, Cluster analyses and Beta-convergence analyses are applied and run in two time-periods, examining process of convergence and divergence among Greek regions in years before and after the crisis outbreak. To reveal how the crisis influenced economic development of each of thirteen regions separately, macroeconomic analyses of Greek regions and sector division of Greek economy are done for the same time-period with use of important regional macroeconomic indicators.

Individual chapters of the theoretical part of diploma thesis entitled Statistical analysis of unemployment familiarization deal with the issue of unemployment,with the issue of time series analysis and with the creation of the unemployment rate prediction. Furtherwork focuses on familiarization with the problems of multidimensional statistical methods, namely cluster analysis. The practical part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of current developments in the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as a whole and subsequently in all 14 regions of the Czech Republic in the years 1993 to 2014. Subsequently, in each of the aforementioned territorial units conducted short-term predictions of the unemployment rate for the years 2015and 2016. These predictions are made based on the best model according to Box-Jenkins method. The unemployment rate is further examined in terms of the number of unemployed by age and educational background. The full analysis is based on the relevant annual data from the Czech Statistical Office. For the purpose of cluster analysis are also used data broken down by the districts of the Czech Republic. Prognosis of the unemployment rate are created in the statistical software Eviews and Cluster Analysis in SPSS Statistics.

This master thesis deals with the perception of tourist destination attractiveness and its measuring by means of two research methods - Q-methodology and Likert scale. The use of these methods and the results which they provide are compared at the end of this thesis. In the theoretical part, which is based on the study of scientific literature, the term tourist destination and its potential for tourism development are defined. This part is also focused on the types of tourist destinations and explains the term tourist destination attractiveness. The following section is aimed at characterization of research methods Likert scale and Q-methodology. These methods are applied in the empirical research for data collection. The practical part is composed of the analysis of the data captured by the questionnaires and the comparison of the results based on own research focused on the tourist destination attractiveness. The result of this master thesis can be used by the destination management organizations and tourist centres in destinations.

The thesis is focused on analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic context of food consumption. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to literary review of resources which is focused on regional disparities and food consumption. In the theoretical part are defined the selected socioeconomic and demographic indicators and similarly conceived approaches of food consumption. In the practical part of the thesis is introduced a brief description of selected territorial units, which are divided into clusters by the cluster analysis based on their similarity/dissimilarity in selected indicators. Based on the results of both cluster analyzes it was found that there is a certain context between the selected socioeconomic and demographic indicators and food consumption in households in the analyzed territorial units. Recommendations for improvement in underdeveloped regions are made in the end of the thesis.