Analysis and comparison of unemployment in the Czech republic and Slovakia from 1994 to 2015

This Bachelors thesis is devoted to the analysis of unemployment in the Czech Republic and Slovakia between years 1994 and 2015. The aim of the thesis is to analyze and compare the development of unemployment between the countries, and furthermore to focus comparison onto unemployment of selected risk groups. The theoretical part focuses on defining basic approaches dealing with the issue. Moreover, it describes the basic concepts of unemployment and sets out not only the fundamental factors affecting unemployment, but also the consequences of unemployment. In the practical part is first analyzed unemployment in the period 1994-2015 in individual countries. Consequently, it delivers comparison of each country, not only in terms of general unemployment rate, which is lower in Czech Republic than in Slovakia, but also in terms of selected risk groups of unemployed people, which shows different values in both countries. Finally, is provided a discussion of economic and political measures to tackle unemployment