OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Policy is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work	28
Social Policy in a Climate Emergency Context: Towards an Ecosocial Research Agenda	26
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers’ Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study	25
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe	24
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality – Lessons from Denmark	22
Digital Social Policy: Past, Present, Future	22
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy	22
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence	17
In-work Universal Credit: Claimant Experiences of Conditionality Mismatches and Counterproductive Benefit Sanctions	16
‘Rising demand and decreasing resources’: Theorising the ‘cost of austerity’ as a barrier to social worker discretion	14
Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries	13
Plumbing the Depths: The Changing (Socio-Demographic) Profile of UK Poverty	12
Financial inclusion in the digital banking age: Lessons from rural India	12
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective	11
European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work	11
Educational Inequalities in Labor Market Exit of Older Workers in 15 European Countries	11
The Taxation of Families: How Gendered (De)Familialization Tax Policies Modify Horizontal Income Inequality	11
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	10
Social Investment, Employment and Policy and Institutional Complementarities: A Comparative Analysis across 26 OECD Countries	10
The Lived Experience of Financialization at the UK Financial Fringe	10
Trapped into Reverse Asymmetry: Public Employment Services Dealing with Employers	9
Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Short-Term Health Policy Responses to Crisis and Uncertainty	9
Changes in Access to Australian Disability Support Benefits During a Period of Social Welfare Reform	9
Social Movements and Social Policy: New Research Horizons	8

A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week	8
Examining Veterans’ Interactions with the UK Social Security System through a Trauma-Informed Lens	8
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	8
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR	8
Does Student Loan Debt Structure Young People’s Housing Tenure? Evidence from England	8
Moving Social Policy from Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing	8
Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion	7
The Implications of Political Trust for Supporting Public Transport	7
How do you Shape a Market? Explaining Local State Practices in Adult Social Care	7
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	7
The role of social enterprises in facilitating labour market integration for people with disabilities: A convenient deflection from policy mainstreaming?	7
Governing Researchers through Public Involvement	7
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services	7
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK	7
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State	6
First step and last resort: One-Euro-Jobs after the reform	6
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare	6
Necessities Laid Bare: An Examination of Possible Justifications for Peter Townsend’s Purely Relative Definition of Poverty	6
The Problem of Success and Failure in Public-private Innovation Partnerships	6
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison	6
Preferences, vote choice, and the politics of social investment: Addressing the puzzle of unequal benefits of childcare provision	6
The role of social innovation policy in social service sector reform: Evidence from Hong Kong	6
“You have to work…but you can’t!”: Contradictions of the Active Labour Market Policies for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK	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
Income Loss and Leave Taking: Increased Financial Benefits and Fathers’ Parental Leave Use in Sweden	5
Family as a Redistributive Principle of the Welfare State. The Case of Germany	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
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability	5
The effects of an old-age allowance programme on intergenerational interactions in Taiwan: Heterogeneous effects by adult children’s motives for giving	5
Scandinavian Approaches to Begging as a Policy Problem and the Double Insider/Outsider Status of Marginalized Intra-EU Migrants	5
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment	5
The Distinctiveness of Smaller Voluntary Organisations Providing Welfare Services	5
Are Social Impact Bonds an Innovation in Finance or Do They Help Finance Social Innovation?	5
Institutions and the politics of agency in COVID-19 response: Federalism, executive power, and public health policy in Brazil, India, and the U.S.	5
A safety net for all? – Vignette-based assessments of Swedish social assistance over three decades	5
Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery	5
Between left and right: A discourse network analysis of Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	4
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	4
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications	4
Hybrid entitlement: Welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement to social rights	4
The Street-Level Organisation in-between Employer Needs and Client Needs: Creaming Users by Motivation in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Service (NAV)	4
Subsidized Household Services and Informal Employment: The Belgian Service Voucher Policy	4
Institutional Business Power: The Case of Ireland’s Private Home Care Providers	4
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care	4
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden	4
The Polarising Worlds of Welfare: Political Orientations, Macroeconomic Context, and Support for Redistribution	4
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools	4
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States	4
Working Less, Not More in a Workfare Programme: Group Solidarity, Informal Norms and Alternative Value Systems Amongst Activated Participants	4
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium	4

Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy? A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers	4
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK	4
Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales	4
Richness, Insecurity and the Welfare State	3
The rise of big philanthropy in global social policy: implications for policy transfer and analysis	3
When do municipalities smooth access for new social assistance claimants? Local determinants of municipal welfare agency’s implementation practices in Belgium	3
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?	3
Expanding Welfare State Borders: Trade Unions and the Introduction of Pro-Outsiders Social Policies in Italy and Argentina	3
Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms	3
The Politics of Change. Coalitional politics and labour market reforms during the sovereign debt crisis in Portugal	3
Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Latin America: Causal Paths to Successful Reform	3
Technology and homecare in the UK: Policy, storylines and practice	3
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	3
The Relevance of Job-Related Concessions for Unemployment Duration Among Recipients of Means-Tested Benefits in Germany	3
Accountability in personalised Supported Employment-based activation services	3
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany	3
Digital Practices of Negotiation: Social Workers at the Intersection of Migration and Social Policies in Switzerland and Belgium	3
Market-Oriented Policies on Care for Older People in Urban China: Examining the Experiment-Based Policy Implementation Process	3
Why is Lived Experience Absent from Social Security Policymaking?	3
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime	3
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views	3
Socio-Economic Performance of European Welfare States in Technology-Induced Employment Scenarios	3
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	3