Fig 1. Unemployment rate in the Visegrad countries.

The group of countries is evidently quite heterogenous in the unemployment rates. The Hungarian rate starts at the lowest level but increases stably during the whole period. The Czech rate begins at quite low levels and decreases up to the outbreak of the financial crisis when the rate surges up until 2010, after which it remains quite stable. The Polish and Slovakian rates commence at very high levels of unemployment, which decrease again up until the outbreak of the crisis, after which they change trends, similarly to the Czech rate.