The paper deals with the impact of the economic development level and given
economic system on sectoral structure of employment with special regard to
the services sector. It describes the topic on the case of the Czech Repub
lic, or Czechoslovakia. At first, it reviews the employment structure in Cz
echoslovakia during the period of 1948 - 1983, then in the Czech Republic b
etween 1990 and 1998.