Analýza dopadů politiky zaměstnanosti federální vlády USA v 60. letech 20. století

The bachelor thesis analyses and evaluates the impact of the labour market policies of President Kennedy and subsequently Johnson's administration. The theoretical part first explains the basic concepts related to employment policies and unemployment and then presents the individual measures of the administrations of both presidents. The practical part then presents a labour market analysis to test the central hypothesis: the employment policy measures of the federal government in the 1960s had a positive impact on selected labour market indicators in the period under study. The central hypothesis was partially verified based on a structural analysis of the individual indicators by gender, race, and age. Apart from women, the other vulnerable groups in the labour market (young individuals, African Americans, and other racial minorities) experienced positive trends in most of the indicators examined compared to their reference groups (older individuals and whites). Also analysed are indicators of education and poverty, whose changes were related to the effects of employment policies. The thesis suggests that federal measures have contributed to reducing the poverty rate. The added value of this thesis is mainly the author's research complemented by his own statistical calculations.