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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	40
Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis	32
The concept of care: Insights, challenges and research avenues in COVID-19 times	30
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	25
Breadwinning or on the breadline? Female breadwinners’ economic characteristics across 20 welfare states	25
Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth	23
The political consequences of housing (un)affordability	22
The disability employment gap in European countries: What is the role of labour market policy?	20
Family policies’ long-term effects on poverty: a comparative analysis of single and partnered mothers	19
Post-crisis developments in young adults’ housing wealth	17
Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case	16
Speaking social Europe: A paradigmatic shift in the European Commission Presidents’ social policy discourse?	15
Integrating refugees through active labour market policy: A comparative survey experiment	15
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services	14
Disabled but not deserving? The perceived deservingness of disability welfare benefit claimants	14
What a social investment ‘litmus test’ must address: A response to Plavgo and Hemerijck	14
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	14
Closure, equality or organisation: Trade union responses to EU labour migration	13
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
The welfare state and support for environmental action in Europe	12
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	12
Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run	11
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households	11
What’s not to like? Benefit design, funding structure and support for universal basic income	11
States of violence: Exploring welfare state regimes as violence regimes by developing a violence regimes index	11

Gender and attitudes toward welfare state reform: Are women really social investment promoters?	11
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	10
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	10
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article	9
Institutional logics of service provision: The national and urban governance of activation policies in three European countries	9
The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes	9
Wealth accumulation and retirement preparedness in cross-national perspective: A gendered analysis of outcomes among single adults	9
Attitudes towards welfare and environmental policies and concerns: A matter of self-interest, personal capability, or beyond?	9
Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries	9
Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics	8
Activation: a thematic and conceptual review	8
Redistributive preferences: Why actual income is ultimately more important than perceived income	8
Reducing mommy penalties with daddy quotas	8
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	8
Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems: policy and politics	8
SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy	8
An illiberal welfare state emerging? Welfare efforts and trajectories under democratic backsliding in Hungary and Turkey	8
Bringing EU citizens together or pulling them apart? The European Health Insurance Card, east–west mobility and the failed promise of European social integration	8
Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage	8
When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too: The effects of partner’s employment status on health in comparative perspective	7
Family leaves for fathers: Non-users as a test for parental leave reforms	7
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	7
The wage and career consequences of temporary employment in Europe: Analysing the theories and synthesizing the evidence	7
Administering the Union citizen in need: Between welfare state bureaucracy and migration control	7
Poverty in the EU using augmented measures of financial resources: The role of assets and debt	7
Lukewarm or enthusiastic supporters? Exploring union member attitudes towards social investment and compensatory policy	7
Social citizenship as a marble cake: The changing pattern of right production and the role of the EU	6
Family as a redistributive principle of welfare states: An international comparison	6
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	6
A new poverty indicator for Europe: The extended headcount ratio	6
Do social investment policies reduce income inequality? An analysis of industrial countries	6
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	6
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	6
But what about that nice house you own? The impact of asset tests in minimum income schemes in Europe: An empirical exploration	6
Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany	6
Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology	5
Automation and public support for workfare	5
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	5
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	5
Local cultural context as a moderator of the impact of childcare on maternal employment: Evidence from a natural experiment	5
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	5
Immigrant integration and social investment	5
Sometimes needs change minds: Interests and values as determinants of attitudes towards state support for the self-employed during the COVID-19 crisis	4
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	4
The role and limits of the European Health Insurance Card: (Too) great expectations?	4
Double burden? Implications of indebtedness to general life satisfaction following negative life events in international comparison	4
When free choice turns into a pitfall: conditional social protection for immigrants in voluntary unemployment insurance systems	4
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	4
Industrial relations and migrant integration in European cities: A comparative perspective	4
Investigating factors influencing quality-of-life effects of home care services in Austria, England and Finland: A comparative analysis	4

Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	4
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	3
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	3
Middle-class interests, redistribution and the postwar success and failure of the solidaristic welfare state	3
(De)legitimization of single mothers’ welfare rights: United States, Britain and Israel	3
Needs or obligations? The influence of childcare infrastructure and support norms on grandparents’ labour market participation	3
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland	3
Between the territory and the legacies: The politicization of active labour market policy in southern Europe	3
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived and social citizenship: Case study research in Belgium, Lithuania and Portugal	3
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	3
Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s	3