The Support for small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic and its effects on labor market

The diploma thesis deals with the support analysis of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to prove the importance of SMEs in the economics and to assess the influence of their support from the Operational Pogramme Enterprise and Innovations (OPEI) on the labour market. The main hypothesis represents the assertion that the SMEs support from the public sources is never effective. The statistical analysis proves that the SMEs in the Czech Republic on the international scale are economically significant. They participate from 99,8% on the total number of entrepreneur's subjects and from almost 60% on the country employment. The evaluation of the support program from the Operational Pogramme Enterprise and Innovations is based on the collected data from the questionnaire poll. The data analysis proved that the supports were important for the workplace production. The public source support analysis on an economical theory and empirical study base proved that the investments are not effective