CLUSTERING OF REGIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION BY THE LABOUR MARKET STRUCTURE

This paper will be devoted to the problem of different areas in the European Union. We will distinguish regions of European Union by the characteristics of labour market. Among these characteristics we can mention employment/unemployment rate of different population groups of (divided by the age and gender), economic activity rate in these groups and demographic structure of whole population. We will use the method of cluster analysis to compare different regions by NUTS 2 in the European Union. The aim of the paper is to show differences in the European Union not only at the national but also at the regional level. One can expect that some regions of one country will be more similar to parts of a different country compared with rest of its own regions.