Abstract:The objective of this paper is the assessment of the current state of employment in the midwife profession in the health and social care sector, especially from the viewpoint of quality assurance. Primary research focuses on the level of practical and theoretical knowledge and the skills of graduates within the last 10 years, as well as the forms of development of human resources that healthcare facilities offer for the purposes of supplementing knowledge and developing skills that are lacking. The quantitative research took place in private and public healthcare facilities in the Czech Republic in 2017. The results of the quantitative research show that the offers of workers in the midwife profession in the labor market are slightly insufficient in relation to demand. Research results show that the overall educational level of graduates has improved over time. The research also shows that the greatest deficiencies in terms of missing competencies among new graduates are seen in the area of expertise according to Regulation No. 55/2011 Coll. (newly No. 2/2016, and that what the graduates lack most are skills in communicating with patients. Conversely, current graduates are better equipped with language skills, computer skills and time-management ability. The research also shows that overall practical readiness lags far behind theoretical readiness.

This paper evaluates the homogeneity of the financial markets in European Union (EU) countries and the impact of determinants of the financial sector in individual EU countries on the investment by economic entities in the given countries. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the homogeneity of financial sectors in EU countries in terms of individual indicators. The paper also evaluates the interdependence between the loan amount (debt and liabilities of the financial sector) on one side and the selected investments on the other. This paper uses the statistical method of correlation analysis to determine the strength and closeness of dependence among indicators, and the multidimensional statistical method of cluster analysis to determine the homogeneity among the individual countries. The results show that, in terms of financial markets, there is still a difference between developed countries in terms of Gross Domestic Product and the rest of the EU Member States. However, in the case of investment activity that is no longer. Partial integration therefore takes place within the EU, in terms of financial markets.

In this paper, the quantitative status of employees in the Health and Social Care sector in the Czech Republic is assessed, and the future development of the sector is predicted both for the Czech Republic as a whole, and for individual regions according to the NUTS3 classification. At present, labor market prognoses are created using the ROA-CERGE model, which includes the main professions in the Health and Social Care sector. This article expands the predictions by adding the regional level and using extrapolation of time series, and it identifies the regions important for the given sector and the labor force. The position of the Czech Republic with regard to selected professions in comparison with other countries of the European Union, i.e., its qualitative status, is also assessed in the paper. The following professions are assessed: general nurses and midwives (both with and without a specialization), physicians, and professional assistants. Healthcare workers do not manifest geographical mobility between regions and work primarily in the region where they live. Since the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU, staff working in key professions have been able to work under comparable conditions in any of the member states. The workforce flow depends, among other things, on its qualitative representation in the given country. To find groups of European countries with similar characteristics of quantitative coverage in selected professions in the Health and Social Care sector, cluster analysis is used to identify homogeneous clusters of countries, as of 2016. Secondary data was obtained from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) and the Information System (ISA+) of the National Institute of Education (NIE).

Human capital theory assumes that investments in education increase worker productivity, which in macroeconomic terms leads to productivity growth across sectors and gross domestic product. In the article, the theory of human capital is verified, specifically the relationship between the level of education and productivity of economically active persons on the job market in the Czech Republic. For such verification, one-dimensional variance analysis is used. Prior to the test, null hypotheses are determined and secondary data are tested for distribution normality and homoskedasticity, i.e. for the suitability of their use in variance analysis.

The Labor market is very important for the overall functioning of the economy. Unemployment rate belongs to the four most important characteristics of the economic efficiency along with gross domestic product, balance of payments and inflation rate. It is incorrect to think that unemployment is a problem only of the unemployed people and their family. High unemployment has many negative consequences -from economic to business, governmental and private. The economic consequences include a decline of the GDP, an increase in the relative poverty and a fall of the potential GDP. Considering businesses, there is a negative impact as well as a positive one. The negative impact is represented by a decline in demand for goods and services. On the other hand, there are a higher number of job seekers from which the firm can select the most suitable ones. Government deals mainly with a fall of revenues and a raise of expenditures. Job is deeply embedded in our culture as well as in our psyche. Through employment, we define who we are. From the individual perspective, losing job has many unpleasant effects such as a drop in living standards due to the loss of income, social exclusion, loss of a social status, deterioration of family relationships and much more.The current economic situation in the European Union changes the type of unemployment in recent years. Text of the article addresses the recessional economic developments in the Czech Republic and unemployment rate of the economically active population associated therewith. The objective is to chart the development of the basic indicator of the functioning of the economy, identify the different types of unemployment in the Czech Republic by the Beveridge curve and through correlation analysis statistically evaluate the relationship between the unemployment rate and the growth rate of real gross domestic product.