SOCIAL - ECONOMIC IMAPACTS OF LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYEMENT OF SLOVAKIA

The unemployment has become phenomenon that influences development after the year 1989 in Slovakia, when the period of main changes in all spheres of country politics and life started. In previous social structure labour market had been deformed by centrally planned economy. Each citizen had the right to work, but also to be employed was a duty. After establishment of first steps towards free market economy, unemployment started to be an important problem. Another aim of the thesis is to enclose difficult situations in families, which come from instability of economy. In the research we would like to point out adverse situation of families as a result of low earnings and high unemployment. Research work and studies show that the development of mass unemployment not only causes serious economic problems for the countries and individuals, but people affected by unemployment have also social, psychological and psychiatric problems. Moreover, physical health of unemployed people may be impaired and the increasing unemployment increases the risk of some of the adverse socio-pathological phenomena, such as alcohol and drug abuse, crime, divorce, domestic violence. The unemployment represents for each individual person different life experience and absence of labour brings for each unemployed various individual consequences, that could be divided to: economical (financial, decline in standard of living), mental (loss of self-confidence, self-respect), medical (somatic and psychical problems) and social (loss of social status, problems in family).The unemployment is accompanying effect of each free market economy. On searching for reasons of unemployment and solution possibilities focuses government economy politics in many countries around the world. In Slovakia, likewise, each government declared finding possibilities to solve problem of unemployment as one of its principal aims. Institute for unemployment supports personal participation of people in economy development as defined in Strategic plans for Europe 2020. In conditions as are in Slovakia, this goal could be reach by inclusive employment.