OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A lost decade? A renewed case for adult social care reform in England	24
Beyond Welfare Chauvinism and Deservingness. Rationales of Belonging as a Conceptual Framework for the Politics and Governance of Migrants’ Rights	22
If I [Take] Leave, Will You Stay? Paternity Leave and Relationship Stability	22
Comparing the availability of paid parental leave for same-sex and different-sex couples in 34 OECD countries	20
The Continuing Effects of Welfare Reform on Food Bank use in the UK: The Roll-out of Universal Credit	16
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers’ Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study	16
Determinants of Equitable Social Policy in Latin America (1990–2013)	15
Receiving Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Negating Shame or Producing Stigma?	15
Using Artificial Intelligence to classify Jobseekers: The Accuracy-Equity Trade-off	13
Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change?	13
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe	12
‘Rising demand and decreasing resources’: Theorising the ‘cost of austerity’ as a barrier to social worker discretion	10
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality – Lessons from Denmark	10
The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Housing Security: An Analysis of Landlord Repossession Rates in English Local Authorities	10
Food insecurity in Europe: Who is at risk, and how successful are social benefits in protecting against food insecurity?	10
Mental Health Problems at a Critical Juncture: Exit from Social Assistance among Young Finns	9
In-work Universal Credit: Claimant Experiences of Conditionality Mismatches and Counterproductive Benefit Sanctions	9
The third sector in a strategically selective landscape – the case of commissioning public services	9
Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens’ Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States	8
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work	8
Ambiguity and Conflict in Policy Implementation: The Case of the New Care Models (Vanguard) Programme in England	8
Educational Inequalities in Labor Market Exit of Older Workers in 15 European Countries	7
Conceptualising state-market-family relationships in comparative research: a conceptual goodness view on defamilization	7
Short-Term Health Policy Responses to Crisis and Uncertainty	7
Welfare and Conflict: Policy Failure in the Indonesian Cash Transfer	7

Unemployment, sanctions and mental health: the relationship between benefit sanctions and antidepressant prescribing	7
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services	6
Examining Veterans’ Interactions with the UK Social Security System through a Trauma-Informed Lens	6
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR	6
Inequalities in Spatial Accessibility of Childcare: The Role of Non-profit Providers	6
Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Insiders under pressure: Flexibilization at the margins and wage inequality	6
Moving Social Policy from Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing	6
Austerity Beyond Crisis: Economists and the Institution of Austere Social Spending for At-Risk Children in Israel	6
The Diversity and Causality of Pension Reform Pathways: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	6
European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work	6
Opening universities’ doors for business? Marketization, the search for differentiation and employability in England	6
Blurring and Bridging: The Role of Volunteers in Dementia Care within Homes and Communities	6
Self-Reflexivity as a form of Client Participation: Clients as Citizens, Consumers, Partners or Self-Entrepreneurs	5
Bringing Women on Board: The Social Policy Implications of Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	5
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence	5
Preferences, vote choice, and the politics of social investment: Addressing the puzzle of unequal benefits of childcare provision	5
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service	5
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway	5
Social Movements and Social Policy: New Research Horizons	5
Trapped into Reverse Asymmetry: Public Employment Services Dealing with Employers	5
Private Benefits? External Benefits? Outcomes of Private Schooling in 21^st Century Britain	5
The Problem of Success and Failure in Public-private Innovation Partnerships	5
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective	5
Social Investment, Employment and Policy and Institutional Complementarities: A Comparative Analysis across 26 OECD Countries	5
Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis	5
Minimum Wage as a Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from Germany	5
Changes in Access to Australian Disability Support Benefits During a Period of Social Welfare Reform	4
Understanding Default Behaviour in Workplace Pensions: Automatic Enrolment in the UK.	4
Plumbing the Depths: The Changing (Socio-Demographic) Profile of UK Poverty	4
‘Mutatio Sub Pressura’: An Exploration of the Youth Policy Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Germany	4
Precarious Work, Unemployment Benefit Generosity and Universal Basic Income Preferences: A Multilevel Study on 21 European Countries	4
First step and last resort: One-Euro-Jobs after the reform	4
The Taxation of Families: How Gendered (De)Familialization Tax Policies Modify Horizontal Income Inequality	4
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability	4
How do you Shape a Market? Explaining Local State Practices in Adult Social Care	4
Digital Social Policy: Past, Present, Future	4
Subsidising rice and sugar? The Public Distribution System and Nutritional Outcomes in Andhra Pradesh, India	4
Scandinavian Approaches to Begging as a Policy Problem and the Double Insider/Outsider Status of Marginalized Intra-EU Migrants	4
The role of social innovation policy in social service sector reform: Evidence from Hong Kong	4
Functional assessments in the UK social security system: the experiences of claimants with mental health conditions	4
Financial inclusion in the digital banking age: Lessons from rural India	4
Social Constructions of Children and Youth: Beyond Dependents and Deviants	4
Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries	4
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment	4
Second Earners and In-Work Poverty in Europe	4
The Politics of Change. Coalitional politics and labour market reforms during the sovereign debt crisis in Portugal	3
Institutions and the politics of agency in COVID-19 response: Federalism, executive power, and public health policy in Brazil, India, and the U.S.	3
Necessities Laid Bare: An Examination of Possible Justifications for Peter Townsend’s Purely Relative Definition of Poverty	3
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK	3

Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery	3
The role of social enterprises in facilitating labour market integration for people with disabilities: A convenient deflection from policy mainstreaming?	3
“First the Grub, then the Morals”? Disentangling the Self-Interest and Ideological Drivers of Attitudes Towards Demanding Activation Policies in Belgium	3
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	3
Governing Researchers through Public Involvement	3
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State	3
“You have to work…but you can’t!”: Contradictions of the Active Labour Market Policies for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK	3
A new era of social policy integration? Looking at the case of health, social care and housing	3
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy	3
The Scope of Possibilities for User Influence in Norwegian Municipal Care Services	3
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime	3
Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion	3
The Street-Level Organisation in-between Employer Needs and Client Needs: Creaming Users by Motivation in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Service (NAV)	3
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications	3
Family as a Redistributive Principle of the Welfare State. The Case of Germany	3
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	3
How Much Choice is Enough? Parental Satisfaction with Secondary School Choice in England and Scotland	2
Institutional Business Power: The Case of Ireland’s Private Home Care Providers	2
The Newly-Recognised Refugees Most at Risk of Homelessness in England	2
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium	2
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	2
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	2
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany	2
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare	2
The Discursive Construction of Accessibility and its Implications for Outreach Work	2
The rise of big philanthropy in global social policy: implications for policy transfer and analysis	2
The Distinctiveness of Smaller Voluntary Organisations Providing Welfare Services	2
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	2
‘The Biggest Charity You’ve Never Heard of’: Institutional Logics of Charity and the State in Public Fundraising in Scotland’s NHS.	2
Can poverty alleviation programs crowd-in private support? Short- and Middle-Run Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Inter-Household Transfers	2
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care	2
Socio-Economic Performance of European Welfare States in Technology-Induced Employment Scenarios	2
Solving Her Problems? Beyond the Seductive Appeal of Specialist Problem-Solving Courts for Women Offenders in England and Wales	2
Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms	2
Protest and Social Policies for Outsiders: The Expansion of Social Pensions in Latin America	2
Hybrid entitlement: Welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement to social rights	2
The Polarising Worlds of Welfare: Political Orientations, Macroeconomic Context, and Support for Redistribution	2
Subsidized Household Services and Informal Employment: The Belgian Service Voucher Policy	2
How Socioeconomic Status and Family Social Capital Matter for the Subjective Well-Being of Young People: Implications for the Child and Family Welfare Policy in Ghana	2
Does Student Loan Debt Structure Young People’s Housing Tenure? Evidence from England	2
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States	2
A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week	2
Expanding Welfare State Borders: Trade Unions and the Introduction of Pro-Outsiders Social Policies in Italy and Argentina	2
‘Navigating’ the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults	2
Market-Oriented Policies on Care for Older People in Urban China: Examining the Experiment-Based Policy Implementation Process	2
The Minimum Income Standard and equivalisation: reassessing relative costs of singles and couples and of adults and children	2
An analysis of the Dutch-style pension plans proposed by UK policy-makers	2
Social Policy in a Climate Emergency Context: Towards an Ecosocial Research Agenda	2