OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees	89
A tall order. South European welfare states’ readiness for climate-adjusted social policy	51
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	37
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	37
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	36
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	31
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	27
The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany	25
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	23
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	23
Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust	20
From efficiency to ambivalence: How digitalisation reshapes labour market activation and the moral economy of welfare state	20
Reinforcing unsustainable welfare in Europe? Growth-centrism, Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism in the 2024 EU Europarty election manifestos	19
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	19
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	18
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	17
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	17
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	17
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	17
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	17
Quid pro quo? A cross-national analysis of European citizens’ opinions toward the universality and conditionality of a basic income	16
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	16
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	15
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	15

Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	15
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	15
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	14
Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	14
Men in European Union’s gender equality policies	13
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	11
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
The unhappy marriage of standardization and activation policy: Welfare bureaucracy and service professionalism in delivering digital social assistance in Finland	9
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	9
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	9
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	9
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	9
What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and mode of delivery	8
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	8
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	8
When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure	8
Complementary policy fields in action: Local policies targeted at multi-problem NEETs	8
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	8
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	8
Post-crisis developments in young adults’ housing wealth	7
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	7
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	7
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	7
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	7
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	7
Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels?	6
Local cultural context as a moderator of the impact of childcare on maternal employment: Evidence from a natural experiment	6
Racialization through (un-)deservingness: political discourse on poverty migration and access to social rights in Germany	6
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	6
What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews	6
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the NEET rate	6
How welfare states influence online platform work in Europe	6
Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice	5
European childcare regimes beyond the ‘average family’ model: A fuzzy clustering analysis	5
Public opposition to fuel taxes in Europe: how important is social disadvantage and how do welfare regimes compare?	5
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	5
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	4
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	4
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	4
Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis	4
SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy	4
The EU compromise machine and the politicisation of social policy: Lessons from the regulation of platform work	4
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers	4
How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed	4
The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes	4
What’s not to like? Benefit design, funding structure and support for universal basic income	4
Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond?	4
Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution	4

Migration as amplifier. How the influence of welfare chauvinism on the vote for far-right populist parties is conditioned by migration	4
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union	3
On the ambivalence of preferences for income redistribution: A research note	3
Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics	3
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending	3
Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s	3
Attitudes towards welfare and environmental policies and concerns: A matter of self-interest, personal capability, or beyond?	3
Varying effects of public pensions: Pension spending and old-age employment under different pension regimes	3
Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth	3
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?	3
Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology	3
Pensions, policy drift and old-age poverty in Western Europe and North America	3
Poverty in the EU using augmented measures of financial resources: The role of assets and debt	3
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults	3