The papers included in this sixth series of Cross-National Research Papers build on the contributions published in the fifth series. They develop with greater breadth and in greater depth work previously carried out on the relationship between socio-demographic trends and policy responses in Europe.
The materials from which the present papers are derived were compiled for a three-year research project funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 5 (HPSE–CT–1999–00031). The research extended earlier work carried out for the European Commission, Directorate General 5, Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs, between 1997 and 1998.