We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour … market regime, simulations for Germany show that labour tax policies can make only a small contribution to alleviating the … problem of persistent unemployment. …

We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour … market regime, simulations for Germany show that labour tax policies can make only a small contribution to alleviating the … problem of persistent unemployment. …

bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …

levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real … wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the …

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 …