Niels Ploug and Jon Kvist, Social Security in Europe, Development or Dismantlement? Kluwer Sovac Series on Social Security 3, The Hague, 1996, 100 pp., hard £27.00. Niels Ploug and Jon Kvist (eds.), Recent Trends in Cash Benefits in Europe. The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen, 1994, 152 pp., DKK90 paper.

Abstract

These volumes from the Danish National Institute of Social Research complete the first phase of a project on social security in Europe, dealing with cash benefits in the Nordic countries, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Volumes 2–4 of the series (including Recent Trends in Cash Benefits in Europe) contain a large amount of the raw material generated by the project, while volume 1, Social Security in Europe, Development or Dismantlement?, presents some findings in a relatively digested form.