The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Labour Market

The aim of this article is to give an overall picture of the impact of the economic crisis by comparing one of the leading participants of world economy (EU-27) with Hungary and its neighbouring country, Slovakia. On the basis of the results we outline the tendencies and changes to be expected in Hungary by evaluating our most important labour market indicators. According to the macroeconomic indicators, the global economic crisis had a great impact in the Member States of the European Union including the Slovak Republic and Hungary