Analysis of the effectiveness of active labor market policies on unemployment in the Usti region

The active employment policy belongs to main means solving problems of unemployment. This dissertation concentrates on active employment policy and analyses it by an example of Ústí region. Its main aim is to determine whether the implements used in active employment policy are purposeful and effective in decreasing of unemployment rate in Ústí region, using methods of induction and abstraction,analysis of statistical data. The dissertatioun evaluates the period after 2000. The dissertation is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part describes labour market, unemployment and employment policy. There are described other implements used to fight the unemployment in some European countries. There is a description of European social fund that gives the financial support to some implements and projects concerning active employment policy. In the analytical part there is a brief socioeconomical analysis of Ústí region, and the analysis of unemployment describing its developmemt since 1990s in Ústí region and in the Czech Republic. The structure of applicants for job is described out of various viewpoints. On the basis of these data we find out which groups of people have the greatest participation in unemployment and should be the target group of active employment policy. The main part of the dissertation is the analysis of active employment policy, its financing, analysis of implements and some completed projects that had been concentrated on threatened groups of job applicants. On the basis of these results we try to say whether the active employment policy in Ústí region has an effect on decreasing the number of unemployed. At the end there are some suggestions and possible solutions of the problem in Ústí region in following years.