Verlagsinfo: This work sheds great insight on the complexities of international security. Recognizing the need for an authoritative text offering a country-by-country summary of the main items of social security regulation in each jurisdiction, Coopers & Lybrand has assembled a group of experts...

"Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all twenty-eight EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. Additional...