Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2015, 17(2):73-79 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2015.2.73-79

Approaches to Active Labour Market Policy in The Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and in Finland

Lubica Konusikova1, Alzbeta Kucharcikova2
1 Silesian university in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Czech Republic
2 Department of Macro and Microeconomics, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Slovakia

The subject matter of the article consists in the issue of unemployment, which is the problem in many countries. The article describes approaches to the solution of the unemployment from the point of view of several economic specializations in theory. Active labour-market policies have developed significantly over the past two decades across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This article describes the approaches to the solution of unemployment problem of the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Finland. Objective of this article is to account variant of active labour market policy.

Keywords: unemployment; active labour market policy; employment

Published: May 31, 2015  Show citation

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Konusikova, L., & Kucharcikova, A. (2015). Approaches to Active Labour Market Policy in The Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and in Finland. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 17(2), 73-79. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2015.2.73-79
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