The main emphasis of labour policies in several EU countries seem to have been addressed during the period 1985-2005 to contain the increases of real wages, under the misleading belief that lower wages could lead the policies to get higher employment rates. We show that the main policies to...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of manufacturing in 11 OECD countries: 9 European Countries, the United States and Japan, during the period 1975-92, from two economi approaches: supply and demand. With this purpose we estimate, with a pool of data, two econometric models for...