OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Social Policy is 8. 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
Breadwinning or on the breadline? Female breadwinners’ economic characteristics across 20 welfare states	25
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	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
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
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services	14
Disabled but not deserving? The perceived deservingness of disability welfare benefit claimants	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
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
Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run	11

Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households	11
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	10
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	10
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
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
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
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