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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A tall order. South European welfare states’ readiness for climate-adjusted social policy	56
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees	33
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	30
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	24
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	23
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	23
The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany	23
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	22
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	21
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	20
Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust	19
From efficiency to ambivalence: How digitalisation reshapes labour market activation and the moral economy of welfare state	18
Deservingness and solidarity: Choosing who should get help among people who beg	17
Reinforcing unsustainable welfare in Europe? Growth-centrism, Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism in the 2024 EU Europarty election manifestos	17
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	15
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	15
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	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
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	12
Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	11
Quid pro quo? A cross-national analysis of European citizens’ opinions toward the universality and conditionality of a basic income	11
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	10
Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse	9

Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	9
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	9
Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin	9
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	9
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	8
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	8
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	8
Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
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
The unhappy marriage of standardization and activation policy: Welfare bureaucracy and service professionalism in delivering digital social assistance in Finland	7
When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure	7
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	7
Complementary policy fields in action: Local policies targeted at multi-problem NEETs	7
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	7
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	7
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	6
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	6
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	6
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	6
Mapping the meanings of welfare deservingness: A correlational class analysis of citizens’ perceptions	6
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	5
What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews	5
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	5
How welfare states influence online platform work in Europe	5
Building a European care regime: EU governance of national care provision through the European Semester	5
Racialization through (un-)deservingness: political discourse on poverty migration and access to social rights in Germany	5
The 1951 refugee convention from a welfare-state perspective	4
Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice	4
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	4
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	4
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the NEET rate	4
European childcare regimes beyond the ‘average family’ model: A fuzzy clustering analysis	4
Public opposition to fuel taxes in Europe: how important is social disadvantage and how do welfare regimes compare?	4
Wars and the formation of the welfare state in Bulgaria	4
Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels?	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
Who governs pension indexation? Automatic government and the limits of quiet retrenchment in Europe	4
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
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	3
Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution	3
Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology	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
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed	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
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
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults	3
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?	3
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers	3
Migration as amplifier. How the influence of welfare chauvinism on the vote for far-right populist parties is conditioned by migration	3
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union	3
Attitudes towards welfare and environmental policies and concerns: A matter of self-interest, personal capability, or beyond?	3
Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics	3