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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The political economy of individual-level support for the basic income in Europe	32
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	28
The social investment litmus test: Family formation, employment and poverty	27
Unravelling deservingness: Which criteria do people use to judge the relative deservingness of welfare target groups? A vignette-based focus group study	24
Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis	24
The concept of care: Insights, challenges and research avenues in COVID-19 times	24
Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth	21
Breadwinning or on the breadline? Female breadwinners’ economic characteristics across 20 welfare states	20
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	19
Targeting within universalism	18
Public attitudes towards a European minimum income benefit: How (perceived) welfare state performance and expectations shape popular support	16
Post-crisis developments in young adults’ housing wealth	16
Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case	15
Speaking social Europe: A paradigmatic shift in the European Commission Presidents’ social policy discourse?	14
Integrating refugees through active labour market policy: A comparative survey experiment	13
The disability employment gap in European countries: What is the role of labour market policy?	13
Non-monetary poverty and deprivation: A capability approach	13
The political consequences of housing (un)affordability	13
Family policies’ long-term effects on poverty: a comparative analysis of single and partnered mothers	12
Closure, equality or organisation: Trade union responses to EU labour migration	12
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services	10
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	10
States of violence: Exploring welfare state regimes as violence regimes by developing a violence regimes index	10
Disabled but not deserving? The perceived deservingness of disability welfare benefit claimants	10
What a social investment ‘litmus test’ must address: A response to Plavgo and Hemerijck	10

Gender and attitudes toward welfare state reform: Are women really social investment promoters?	9
Institutional logics of service provision: The national and urban governance of activation policies in three European countries	9
Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run	9
Marshall revisited: EU social policy from a social-rights perspective	9
Reducing mommy penalties with daddy quotas	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
Wealth accumulation and retirement preparedness in cross-national perspective: A gendered analysis of outcomes among single adults	8
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households	8
What’s not to like? Benefit design, funding structure and support for universal basic income	8
The welfare state and support for environmental action in Europe	8
Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries	7
Poverty in the EU using augmented measures of financial resources: The role of assets and debt	7
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	7
SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy	6
Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems: policy and politics	6
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	6
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article	6
An illiberal welfare state emerging? Welfare efforts and trajectories under democratic backsliding in Hungary and Turkey	6
Redistributive preferences: Why actual income is ultimately more important than perceived income	6
Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage	6
Attitudes towards welfare and environmental policies and concerns: A matter of self-interest, personal capability, or beyond?	6
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	6
Administering the Union citizen in need: Between welfare state bureaucracy and migration control	6
Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany	6
When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too: The effects of partner’s employment status on health in comparative perspective	5
Family leaves for fathers: Non-users as a test for parental leave reforms	5
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	5
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	5
Lukewarm or enthusiastic supporters? Exploring union member attitudes towards social investment and compensatory policy	5
Do social investment policies reduce income inequality? An analysis of industrial countries	5
The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes	5
Healthcare funding and its relationship to equity and outcomes: A QCA analysis of Commonwealth Fund and OECD data	5
But what about that nice house you own? The impact of asset tests in minimum income schemes in Europe: An empirical exploration	5
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	4
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	4
Family as a redistributive principle of welfare states: An international comparison	4
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	4
The wage and career consequences of temporary employment in Europe: Analysing the theories and synthesizing the evidence	4
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	4
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	4
Local cultural context as a moderator of the impact of childcare on maternal employment: Evidence from a natural experiment	4
When free choice turns into a pitfall: conditional social protection for immigrants in voluntary unemployment insurance systems	4
Gender and education inequalities in parental employment and earnings when having a child with increased care needs: Belgium versus Norway	4
Immigrant integration and social investment	4
Industrial relations and migrant integration in European cities: A comparative perspective	3
Double burden? Implications of indebtedness to general life satisfaction following negative life events in international comparison	3
The roles of employers and trade unions in immigration and welfare state policymaking	3
The political economy of minimum income benefits: How parties, unions and migration influence benefit adequacy	3
A new poverty indicator for Europe: The extended headcount ratio	3

Automation and public support for workfare	3
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	3
Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics	3
Activation: a thematic and conceptual review	3
The role and limits of the European Health Insurance Card: (Too) great expectations?	3
Personal politics? Healthcare policies, personal experiences and government attitudes	3