Structural Reforms Addressed to the Labour Market and Macroeconomic Policies

This chapter reflects the point of view of a Western European who was active in the public sector of French social market economies, then often concerned with policy advising, someone who is also a macroeconomist with an interest in labour economics and applied econometrics. Whereas colleagues working on developing economies or on economies in transition are now sometimes confronted with the IMF and its reading of the so-called ‘Washington Consensus’, I was rather faced in the 1990s with OECD and its ‘jobs strategy’.