Unemployment Aspects of Regional Development (The Cases of the Czech and Slovak Republics)

Despite of the long existence of the joint state, the Czech Republic and Slovakia experienced a different labour market development reflected in the differences at unemployment. This paper is dedicated to the research and comparison of the regional unemployment differentiation in both countries through the figures for 2015, in correlation to wage differentiation and further selected unemployment aspects, for example gender, age and education structure; focusing also on the long-term unemployment as a specific unemployment form. The research outcomes indicate rather favourable situation on the labour market in most Czech regions and in the Western Slovakia; high unemployment rate reported in the Eastern Slovakia represents an ongoing problem with huge disparities within Slovakia, contrary to the Czech Republic.