shows where conditions are ripe for quality job creation due to high skills supply and high skills demand. In 2011, two sub-regions – Bratislava, the capital region, and Trnava, the sub-region bordering Bratislava – were in “high skills equilibrium”, where a high supply of skills (percentage of people with post-secondary education) is matched by a high skills demand (percentage of medium and high skills occupations and GVA per worker). Both demand-side indicators in these regions are significantly higher compared to other regions. The sub-regions of Trenčín and Žilina suffer skills deficit (where skills demand exceeds supply). The regions of Banská Bystrica and Prešov are in skills surplus (where skills supply exceeds demand). Nitra and Košice were in “low skills equilibrium”, where a low supply of skills is matched by low demand for skills.