This paper analyzes the impact of corporate taxes on structural unemployment, using an applied general equilibrium … model for the European Union. We find that the unemployment and welfare effects of corporate taxes differ considerably among …, and the strength of international spillover effects through foreign direct investment. The effect on unemployment is …

increase in the pace of job creation and destruction may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment;the effects … may be out of its unemployment equilibrium for quite a long time after a shock occurs.The novelty of the model is that it … takes explicitly account of the propagationof shocks through the various duration classes of unemployment andallows for …