Retirement Is a Foreign Country: Work beyond Retirement and Elder Care in Socialist Bulgaria

In this article, I investigate state policies in socialist rule in Bulgaria, encouraging pensioners to work beyond retirement and their impact on eldercare. First, I argue that in the 1970s, Bulgarian pensioners began occupying economic niches similar to those of labor migrants in Western Europe. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ilia Iliev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-07-01
Series:Genealogy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/3/65