TY - JOUR AB - Starts out by documenting the massive scale of early, and disability, retirement in Hungary and Poland, during the first seven years of the post‐communist transition. Sums up that the Hungarian and Polish governments had urgent reasons to design social policies to try to halt the danger of large‐scale protests in the 1990s. VL - 24 IS - 1/2 SN - 0144-333X DO - 10.1108/01443330410790975 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330410790975 AU - Vanhuysse Pieter PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - The pensioner booms in post‐communist Hungary and Poland: political sociology perspectives T2 - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 86 EP - 102 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -