Unemployment in the Czech Republic - Case study of the Liberecký Region

Dominik Pechr

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The aim of the thesis was to describe the issue of unemployment and its development in the Liberecký Region. The objective was to assess development of the unemployment rate sorted by several criteria in years 2010 - 2014. Another objective was intended to compare data of unemployment of the Czech Republic and the Liberecký Region. Comparative and descriptive methods were used in the thesis. To develop theoretical part I used professional publications, textbooks, books and websites dealing with unemployment. The theoretical part dealt with the explanation of terms that are important to clarify the issue of unemployment. Theoretical part describes how to measure unemployment, its types, relationship to inflation, natural rate of unemployment, high-risk groups, causes and other topics concerning unemployment. The practical part focused on tables and graphs, which were made using MS Excel and MS Word with data from the Czech Statistical Office and Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. A comparison of unemployment data of the Liberecký Region can be concluded that this region is overall very close to the average statistics of unemployment of the Czech Republic although in most of the statistics the average is approached from the lower side. As example we can state age group with the most unemployed or the data for unemployment by education or gender.

Keywords

unemployment, unemployment rate, inflation, labour market

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 9. 3. 2016

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Mansoor Maitah, Ph.D. Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / field:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management