This paper deals with the situation on the European labour market and especially on the Czech labour market. It shows … the impact of long-term unemployment - a crucial problem in contemporary European countries - on the economy and on the … society and its integrity. Great attention is paid to the social parasitism of the long-term unemployed and to the conversion …

wage act. The Czech Republic has had a statutory national minimum wage since 1990 (Act no. 65/1965 Coll., or the Labour …). The paper deals with some results of empirical research into the effects of the minimum wage on enterprises and employment …

, unemployment, and long-term unemployment. The principal findings concern the dominance of the supply side of the labour market …, especially the unfavourable decline in young labour force in the present difficult period, a special pattern of Czech self-employment …This paper deals with the situation on the Czech labour market in the period 1990-2006. It shows the status and …

), production and indirectly also employment. In the retail market the consumer price index (CPI) is formed. We specify a simple … dynamic model with two state variables: CPI and PPI. Real variables - production and employment - are fully determined by CPI … shocks to the PPI inflation, production and employment equations. In the second part we implement the model on monthly data …