This report has been co-ordinated by Gregorio Rodríguez-Cabrero, who has authored the Introduction and the sections dealing with Pensions and Long-term Care. Ana Arriba has written those parts referring to Women’s Labour Participation and Family Protection and Exclusion and Social Welfare, and Vicente Marbán that corresponding to Unemployment and Labour Activation. The authors would like to thank Luis Moreno, director of the WRAMSOC Project in Spain, for his advice and Teresa Buil for her generous assistance in the preparation of data materials and for carrying out text editing.

WRAMSOC. WELFARE REFORM AND THE MANAGEMENT OF SOCIETAL CHANGE. European Research Project, V Framework Programme: ‘Improving the Human Research Potential and Socio-economic Knowledge Base’, Research Directorate General, European Commission.