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UNEMPLOYMENT AS A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM AND HOW TO MINIMIZE IT WITH A LONG LIFE EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: Currently, the unemployment has become one of the most serious economic problem. It affects the social development both in transforming countries and in developed economies. The unemployment in developed economies appears mainly as a social-and-psychological problem, because the economic situation of many unemployed persons often exceeds the economic level even of higher status working people in the Eastern Europe. In the Slovak Republic the unemployment is predominantly an economic prob-lem accompanied with social-and-psychological shocks. Big discrepancies on the labour market often appears due to a low degree of popula-tion´s adaptability and frequently also due to a high complexity of legislation regarding entrepreneurial activities, which cut down the number of people interested in businesses and increases the number of people waiting for some work benefiting the unemployment support or making their living in some other way. Their failed on labour market as the former work activities ceased to exist and the new ones require new skills and know-ledge. Due to that it is necessary to amend education, to gain new skills or to gain a new education applicable for a new work or profession. Growing demands on education cannot be solved simply by prolonging the school attendance time scale, but better by promoting adults education schemes as a part of a long-life educational process. In the market economy the labour market performs as a basic stimulus for education and skills development because various ownership forms and market economy princi-ples applied stimulate a competition amongst producers acting on the markets with goods and services. The competition on the markets with goods and services logically results in the com-petition on the labour market. It means that the labour market becomes as objective stimulus of the permanent increase of requirements regarding work skills which subse-quently decide where a particular person can join the work process. We can see an in-terdepent relationship between labour market and education market. The period of scientific and technical and information explosion have placed high requirements on a human being and these are transmitted into the work career. All efforts to specify requirements which are necessary for a work position at the millen-nium break, led to the following areas: • Mobility – acceptance of changing the place of work, willingness to follow the work which brings self-actualization and self-assertion; • Flexibility – get accustomed to a changed character of work, to a new position ; • Communication – adequate contact with people following the rule: „people act at us as we act to them“; • Acceptance of uncertainty and multiplicity resulting from still faster changes we have to count of in the future; • Long-life education as a necessary precondition to cope with the constantly growing requirements on the labour market....

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