Unemployment inflicts costs on the government budget, on the unemployed individu- al, and on the society as a whole in many ways. The paper summarizes the findin- gs of published research on negative consequences of unemployment and as such founds the need to solve the problem of unemployment. It discusses the Model of Employment, which is a possible solution to the problem of unemployment and thus addresses the need to reduce the costs of unemployment. The crux of the model is a redistribution of the total number of workplaces and total annual working hours among the »new actively employed population«. The model takes into account the fact that there should be a match between the requirements of a workplace and the educational profile of a prospective employee.Brezposelnost povzroča stroške državi, posamezniku in družbi v mnogih oblikah. Povzemamo izsledke dosedanjih raziskav na področju negativnih posledic brezpo- selnosti, s čimer utemeljujemo potrebo po snovanju rešitve problema brezposelnosti. Predstavimo model zaposlenosti, ki je možna rešitev problema in s tem odgo- vor na potrebo po zniževanju stroškov brezposelnosti. Bistvo modela je razdelitev obstoječega števila delovnih mest in na letni ravni razpoložljivih delovnih ur med »novo delovno aktivno prebivalstvo« ob upoštevanju ujemanja med zahtevami de- lovnega mesta in izobrazbenim profilom oseb
