This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a … matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … as it is in the data, or to make the response of unemployment to a change in the unemployment benefit as small in the …

The purpose of the article was a space-time analysis of the unemployment rate in polish poviats. In the research we use … unemployment rate registered in Poland at the end of the years 2004-2009. In the first part the unemployment rate was analyzed for …