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Daniela Palaščáková, PhDr., PhD.

Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia

David Palaščák, Mgr.

University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia

YOUNG UNEMPLOYMENT AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM

This article shows the reasons, consequences and possibilities of the solutions of young unemployment who are one of the most vulnerable groups of a modern society. The selection of the topic was influenced by the fact that unemployment as such is a matter of all of us and it’s a contemporary phenomenon in every single economics. The aim of the article is to define the prognosis of further development in the following period based on the analysis of contemporary state of a selected group of young people in the Slovak Republic endangered by the unemployment, with the help of quantitative prognosis method that is based on the analysis of a processing the historical data in specific relations and their extrapolation for the prognosis period.

Keywords: economy, unemployment, young people, society.