CURRENT ISSUES ON THE SLOVAK LABOUR MARKET AND REGIONAL ASPECTS

The paper is focused on the analysis of developments in key areas of the Slovak labour market. It highlights the continuing problems in ensuring stronger growth in employment and regional differences in levels of unemployment and structural problems in selected regions. The labour market is sensitive and vulnerable place of the Slovak economy, the adverse impacts of the crisis in past years exhibited significantly compared to most EU economies, which resulted in deepening structural problems in the labour market and higher unemployment rate, which is moreover in the long term significantly spatially differentiated on axis east - west. Despite significant regional differences in unemployment levels is a regional mobility of labour in Slovakia relatively low. Nowadays, to reducing regional disparities can be used a support from the state for the least developed districts of Slovakia. The latest economic forecasts confirm that there is an ongoing recovery in Slovakia also because of low energy prices and very accommodating monetary policy. Nevertheless, the results of the labour market are still affected by the persistence of large regional disparities in economic growth and employment. The European Commission also notes that unemployment remains one of the biggest problems of economic policy, with regard to its structural nature.