Vývoj nezaměstnanosti ve vybraných průmyslových odvětvích v meziválečném Československu

This diploma thesis deals with the development of the unemployment during the interwar period in Czechoslovakia in the following selected industry sector: textile, ready-to-wear clothes, stone, soil and glass, food, paper and industrial production of wood and carving. Integrated is a part attempting to verify following hypothesis: Indexes of unemployment in Czechoslovakia in period 1921 to 1936 did not exceed the value 20,0 (1929=1) in all selected industry sectors. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the definition of the basic concepts and points of the economic situation of Czechoslovakia using the description method, while the specialized literature and sources shows that the interwar Czechoslovakia has undergone both the period of boom and the period of depression. The practical part of thesis describes the social situation in Czechoslovakia, using the comparative method and statistical analysis to show the development of unemployment firstly in selected industry sectors and then summarized. Collected data show that the development trend is very similar. The impact of the Great Depression is obvious in all selected industry sectors, resulting from the fact that, the number of unplaced job applicants at this time reaches its maximum. According to the analysis the hypothesis was refused, because in the stone, soil, glass and industrial production of wood and carving industry sectors the number of unplaced job applicants has increased more the 20 times in comparison with 1929. Finally, a correlation analysis of unemployment with a gross domestic product is made, which reveals the existing dependence by these quantities.