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Immigration and its effects have been a heating topic among V4 countries after the 2014 migration crisis. Hence the current study is interested to study the relationship between unemployment and immigration in the case of V4 countries. Accordingly, it covers 20 years for the period of 2000 to 2021. Using secondary dynamic panel data and applying fixed effect with Driscoll and Kraay standard errors. The result of this paper indicates a positive and significant effect of immigration on unemployment. Policy recommendation includes immigration integration policy and prioritise economic growth, inflation, labour movement free movement within EU and development policies while incorporating immigrant as factor to propel the growth in the labour-intensive industry.

The lack of physicians is a serious problem in the Slovak Republic (SR More than 5,000 physicians will be missing in the health care system in the next two years. From the report on health care status in Slovakia, according to OECD (2017), the state of health care in the country achieves very negative results in the indicators related to the human and financial resources of the monitored sector (mortality of newborns, preventable and avoidable mortality, urgent traffic, and others). The study was based on the analysis of the labor market situation in the health care sector for the profession of physician in the SR to identify the state and future need of physicians working in Slovakia, find possible solutions to the identified situation and determine which pull and push factors are the most important. The contribution of the study will be based on the analysis to suggest the ways to facilitate the employment of foreign doctors in Slovakia. The problem of the lack of specialists was considered in two directions of solving it on account of the flow of specialists from other countries: stimulation in order for the foreign medical students to stay in the country after their studies; engagement of foreign qualified doctors. Real situation with doctor stuffing in the Slovak Republic was evaluated, the forecasts until 2022 were made, the proposals on improving the management in solving this problem at the state level were made.

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