The changing social status of pensioners is described and structured according to stylized periods. First, we identify the salient features of the communist regime that shifted pensioners to the margins of society. Second, we attempt to trace how the position of pensioners changed as a result of...

This paper compares the standard economic and a complementary socio-economic approach to the transition. While the economic approach looks at social problems from the outside and views them as costs of transition, the socio-economic approach looks at these problems from the inside and views them...