Unemployment is one of the most closely observed characteristics of an economy from both, societal and spatial point of view. High unemployment rate of a specific social group can lead to an increased deprivation rate, a difficulty to enter the labour market, as well as to decreasing of living standards or social pathology phenomena (e.g. criminality, family or social conflicts etc.).
The purpose of this map sheet is to assess the evolution of unemployment in Czechia and its regional differentiation from the long-term viewpoint of changes in the economic reality of the 20th and 21st century.