Unemployment in Selected EU Countries
Unemployment in Selected EU Countries

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare the dynamic of unemployment in the years 2000–2014 inselected EU countries. The subject of the present analysis is unemployment in total population and insubpopulations identified on the basis of gender, age, and education. The notion of unemploymentrate was used throughout, and its values were taken from the Internet database Eurostat.The analysis conducted makes it possible to draw the following conclusions. The differentiationof total unemployment rate among the selected EU countries was very high, and the shape of thecurves reflected the impact of economic crisis. Around 2010 many countries saw stabilising tendencies(with the exception of Greece and the countries located in the Iberian Peninsula). In the countrieswith low unemployment rates the surplus of female unemployment is giving way to a gender balance,or even a slight surplus of male unemployment. Among the selected age categories, the youngestgroup was and continues to be most heavily affected by the situation on the labour market. A highlevel of education is still correlated with a lower risk of unemployment; nevertheless the growingdifferences between the countries constitute a troubling trend.

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