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The aim of the article is an identification of macroeconomic specifics connected to the long term development of the Slovak labour market. Its realization starts from analysis of Slovak business cycles’ reflection in formation of the labour market. In continuation on this analysis relationships between growth of economic performance and employment rate investigated, including description of functionalities between them. Periods and degrees of similarities with causality represented by the Phillips curve are identified in the framework of the investigation of relationships between inflation and unemployment development. The specifics of long term unemployment with special regard to development of the economy after the global economic crisis are determined in the structure of unemployment