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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees	59
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	44
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	32
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	30
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	29
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	24
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	21
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	20
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	18
The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany	17
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	16
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	15
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	15
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	14
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	14
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	14
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	13
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	13
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	12
Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	12
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	12
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	12
Men in European Union’s gender equality policies	11
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	11

Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin	11
Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse	10
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	10
What a social investment ‘litmus test’ must address: A response to Plavgo and Hemerijck	10
Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
A new poverty indicator for Europe: The extended headcount ratio	10
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	9
What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and mode of delivery	9
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	9
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	9
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	9
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	9
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	8
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	7
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	7
Do social investment policies reduce income inequality? An analysis of industrial countries	7
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	7
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	7
Post-crisis developments in young adults’ housing wealth	6
The role and limits of the European Health Insurance Card: (Too) great expectations?	6
What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews	6
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	6
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	6
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	6
Family leaves for fathers: Non-users as a test for parental leave reforms	6
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	5
Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels?	5
Local cultural context as a moderator of the impact of childcare on maternal employment: Evidence from a natural experiment	5
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the NEET rate	5
Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice	4
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article	4
What’s not to like? Benefit design, funding structure and support for universal basic income	4
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	4
Racialization through (un-)deservingness: political discourse on poverty migration and access to social rights in Germany	4
Public opposition to fuel taxes in Europe: how important is social disadvantage and how do welfare regimes compare?	4
The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes	4
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services	3
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers	3
Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems: policy and politics	3
Pensions, policy drift and old-age poverty in Western Europe and North America	3
Sustaining the unsustainable? The political sustainability of pensions in Finland and the Netherlands	3
Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond?	3
Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis	3
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	3
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	3
SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy	3
How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed	3
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?	2
On the ambivalence of preferences for income redistribution: A research note	2
Varying effects of public pensions: Pension spending and old-age employment under different pension regimes	2

Welfare-state selectivity, universality, and social trust in Europe, 2002–2019: Bringing deservingness back in	2
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union	2
How wealth matters for social policy	2
Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The international reproduction policy database	2
Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth	2
Middle-class interests, redistribution and the postwar success and failure of the solidaristic welfare state	2
Poverty in the EU using augmented measures of financial resources: The role of assets and debt	2
Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics	2
Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands	2
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults	2
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology	2
Attitudes towards welfare and environmental policies and concerns: A matter of self-interest, personal capability, or beyond?	2
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending	2
Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s	2
Towards a theorization of the global community welfare regime: Depicting four ideal types of the community’s role in welfare provision	2