UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS SPECIFICS IN SLOVAKIA.

Currently, unemployment and its consequences may be deemed to be in focus of the government's social policy aimed at elimination of possible risks for both individuals and the society. This paper deals with an analysis of development of the unemployment rate and its selected characteristics in Slovakia during the years 2011 - 2015 while focusing on identification of relations between the education level and age of economically active population on one hand and the education level and age of the unemployed on the other hand. The aim of the paper is to analyze the most important changes as concerns the development of unemployment and numbers of the unemployed during the period concerned while factoring in the trend of changes in individual characteristics and examining mutual relations. The obtained results draw attention not only to the continuing trend of the unemployment rate reduction in Slovakia but also to the links among examined characteristics affecting the development of the unemployment rate as to its individual indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]