OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Social Policy is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	37
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	34
A tall order. South European welfare states’ readiness for climate-adjusted social policy	27
Deservingness and solidarity: Choosing who should get help among people who beg	25
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	23
Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust	22
From efficiency to ambivalence: How digitalisation reshapes labour market activation and the moral economy of welfare state	19
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	18
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	15
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	14
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	13
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	13
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	12
Reinforcing unsustainable welfare in Europe? Growth-centrism, Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism in the 2024 EU Europarty election manifestos	11
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	11
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	10
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	10
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	9
Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	9
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	9
Quid pro quo? A cross-national analysis of European citizens’ opinions toward the universality and conditionality of a basic income	9
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	9
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	8
Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse	8

What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and mode of delivery	8
Men in European Union’s gender equality policies	8
Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin	8
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	7
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	7
Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Complementary policy fields in action: Local policies targeted at multi-problem NEETs	7
When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure	7
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	7
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	7
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	7
The unhappy marriage of standardization and activation policy: Welfare bureaucracy and service professionalism in delivering digital social assistance in Finland	7
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	6
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	6
Mapping the meanings of welfare deservingness: A correlational class analysis of citizens’ perceptions	6
Building a European care regime: EU governance of national care provision through the European Semester	6
The distant, the capable and trustworthy, and the digitally skilled—the production of client roles in municipal activation and social assistance services using automated decision-making	6
Resilience of solidarity: Austria’s social insurance model from a comparative perspective	6
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	6
SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy	5
What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews	5
How welfare states influence online platform work in Europe	5
Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice	5
Racialization through (un-)deservingness: political discourse on poverty migration and access to social rights in Germany	5
Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels?	5
Public opposition to fuel taxes in Europe: how important is social disadvantage and how do welfare regimes compare?	5
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the NEET rate	5
The 1951 refugee convention from a welfare-state perspective	5
Wars and the formation of the welfare state in Bulgaria	4
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	4
Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond?	4
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	4
The EU compromise machine and the politicisation of social policy: Lessons from the regulation of platform work	4
European childcare regimes beyond the ‘average family’ model: A fuzzy clustering analysis	4
Who governs pension indexation? Automatic government and the limits of quiet retrenchment in Europe	4
Migration as amplifier. How the influence of welfare chauvinism on the vote for far-right populist parties is conditioned by migration	4
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers	4
Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution	4
How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed	3
Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology	3
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union	3
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults	3
Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s	3
Who wants what, and why? Attitude polarization and political viability of UBI	3
Varying effects of public pensions: Pension spending and old-age employment under different pension regimes	3
Pensions, policy drift and old-age poverty in Western Europe and North America	3
Household classification, family diversity and poverty risks in Europe: Addressing a North-Western bias	3
Theorising ‘best practice’ for supporting those furthest from the market into work or self-employment in France and England	2
Safety net or sieve: Do Europe’s minimum income schemes reach the poor?	2
Towards a theorization of the global community welfare regime: Depicting four ideal types of the community’s role in welfare provision	2

Welfare-state selectivity, universality, and social trust in Europe, 2002–2019: Bringing deservingness back in	2
‘Family policy change’ and the dependent variable problem: A systematic review of theories, conceptualisations, and measurements	2
Needs or obligations? The influence of childcare infrastructure and support norms on grandparents’ labour market participation	2
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending	2
Beyond left and right: Socio-cultural determinants of parenting leave policy in advanced democracies	2
Family as a redistributive principle of welfare states: An international comparison	2
Building a wall around the welfare state, or around the country? Preferences for immigrant welfare inclusion and immigration policy openness in Europe	2
Unravelling the relationship between employment, social transfers and income poverty: Policy and measurement	2
Social rights in a post-colonial welfare state: Revisiting ‘universality’ and ‘inclusivity’	2
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?	2
A street-level bureaucrat discourse on activation of migrant women: Victimising, blaming and rescuing	2
Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The international reproduction policy database	2
Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands	2
The welfare state and support for environmental action in Europe	2