Abstract:

This paper aims to look in more details to the possible reasons of the youth unemployment in the Slovak Republic. It points out the specific relation between the results of the secondary vocational education and the unemployment rate of graduates of this type of school in 2 different regions in Slovakia (Bratislava and Banská Bystrica). We built our research on the assumption, that the vocational education in the Slovak Republic is not producing graduates with skills required by the labour market and the employers and compared the position of the secondary vocational education graduates on labour market in two regions of the Slovak Republic – Bratislava (with the lowest unemployment rate, overall and youth) and Banská Bystrica (one of the regions with higher unemployment rate). We present the results of the correlation analysis, made between the graduate unemployment rate and the average success rate in the Slovak Language. The research leads to the conclusion that in the Bratislava Region the higher the average success rate in the Slovak Language the lower the graduate unemployment rate, as expected. In Banská Bystrica Region the correlation did not provided the expected results.