Zasiłki dla bezrobotnych w Polsce i w wybranych krajach gospodarki rynkowej

This article shows the system of unemployment benefits in Poland in relation to systems implemented in chosen European countries: German, France, Belgium and Sweden. The characteristic of particular system solution has been based on the following criteria: way and conditions of granting benefit, sources of financing, principles involved in fixing the amount and the period of the benefit. The analysis reveals that solutions are adjusted much better to the situation on the labour market, in the other countries than in Poland. The analysis shows that changes in mechanism of the benefits systems, in the last years, goes to the direction of stimulation of higher activity of the unemployed.