International Journal of Social Welfare

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Welfare is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Social responsibility of military organizations: Effects of ethical leadership on the job and life satisfaction of military personnel through perceived military social responsibility27
Welfare dynamics of minimum income recipients in Spain: A sequence analysis of employment and activation trajectories21
Distinguishing characteristics of out‐of‐school adolescents in South Korea: A machine learning approach17
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Precarious welfare‐to‐work transitions in a segmented labour market: Evidence from the Netherlands15
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial14
Poverty and public works: Evidence from Hungary13
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Challenging scalar fallacy in state‐wide welfare studies: AUKsub‐state comparison of civil society approaches to addressing youth unemployment12
A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de‐personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship12
Self‐initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data12
Measuring the standard of living in shared‐care families—Challenges and insights11
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany11
The family structural and socioeconomic characteristics of the family well‐being of Hong Kong people10
Intergenerational transmission or local labour market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions10
Renegotiating deservedness: A Big Qual analysis across eight guaranteed income experiments10
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How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long‐term care policy9
Daily challenges and coping strategies of Chin irregular migrant workers in Malaysia: A qualitative study on health and well‐being9
Non‐school‐related internet use and its relationship with school performance and engagement: A cross‐national study of middle school students in China and the United States9
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea8
Examining coping and acculturative stress as mediators between perceived discrimination and internalising symptoms among African immigrants8
Poverty and inequality impact of COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Mazar‐i‐Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan8
Socioeconomic barriers and educational pathways of unaccompanied foreign minors in Europe's southern border8
When hidden politics become visible: Administrative burden experiences of older adults and professionals in home care8
An ideology of deserving: A historical analysis of the United States' immigration policies governing forced migration and social welfare8
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Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context: Illustrations from Ghana and the United States8
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From passive to active welfare: Poverty alleviation and perceived governance in rural China7
The ethics of explainable AI in child welfare7
De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy7
Impact evaluation of a new counselling and support programme for unemployed with multiple placement obstacles7
Integrating familial care and extra‐familial care into a new long‐term care policy for China: Examples from Germany's long‐term care insurance6
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Meeting basic needs first: The influence of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on rural household consumption structure6
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Examining the potential impact of universal basic income on labor supply: Focusing on the South Korean models6
Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth6
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic6
Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap6
Editorial6
Epistemic justice in international social work research: Postcolonial theory and analytic strategies6
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Behavioral health literacy: A new construct to improve outcomes among incarcerated individuals6
Understanding Iran's welfare regime: The interplay of community, family, market, and state in a religious context6
What explains the smoking prevalence disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australians?6
Reducing sex work by targeting ‘vulnerable’ sex workers: A post‐structural analysis of policies regulating Danish exit programmes directed at people involved in sex work5
Intergenerational solidarity in a developing welfare state: The case of South Korea5
What shapes local alcohol, narcotics, and tobacco policy in Sweden?5
Unemployed and then? The role of non‐standard employment in labour market trajectories after unemployment5
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Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care5
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Targeting social welfare for people with severe mental illness: A review of policies in China and a call for further action5
The efficacy and efficiency of public transfer programmes on the poverty of the older population in South Korea5
Building nests for left‐behind children's hearts: How a “backend‐digital, frontend‐human” approach reshapes the child protection ecosystem in rural China5
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain5
E‐parenting literacy and early childhood development: Evidence from rural Chinese mother and grandmother caregivers5
Understanding migratory grief through testimonies of young people who migrated unaccompanied in childhood5
Evaluating socio‐economic resilience interventions among out‐of‐school adolescent girls and young women in rural Central Uganda: A quasi‐experimental approach5
Minimum income schemes expansions and heterogeneous effects in South Korea5
“Every day is a disaster”: Climate vulnerabilities and disaster subculture of jjokbang‐chon in Seoul, Korea and its implications for social work4
Sustainability and inequality of Taiwan's National Pension Insurance4
Experiences of older adults and widows with the government allowance programmes in rural Bangladesh4
Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee‐serving institutions upon resettlement4
The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing?4
Beyond the precariat: Trajectories of precarious work and its determinants in South Korea4
Patterns and determinants of multiple welfare programme participation among families with children in Taiwan: Evidence from panel data (2016–2022)4
A quartered typology of welfare attitudes: Evidence from the World Values Survey Wave 74
Ukraine's poor majority: Exploring the driving factors of subjective poverty4
Job demands‐control, job support, and depressive symptoms: Unraveling job support's moderating mechanism among social workers in China4
Administrative burden in older adults: A look at SNAP4
How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions4
Generosity of old‐age pensions for the self‐employed—A typology of European welfare states4
The lived experiences of the welfare state of platform workers: The barriers to accessing social protection in Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom4
Pluralisation and differentiation of employment patterns in five liberal regime countries4
Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–20224
COVID‐19 and support for basic income in Korea4
Unpacking vulnerability among migrant minors in the EU: A case study of vulnerability among migrant minors in Spain4
Loans for welfare benefit recipients: Evidence from the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) 2007–20204
Collaboration between government and social organizations in supporting hard‐to‐employ people with disabilities in China: A case study3
State temporary assistance for needy families policies and high school diploma or equivalent attainment among mothers following a nonmarital birth: An event history analysis3
A multidimensional approach to attitudes toward the causes of poverty: A case study of South Korea3
Women's welfare attitudes in South Korea3
Digital sexual violence in adolescents: The role of family factors, online anonymity, and gender3
Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany3
Decent old‐age incomes for all? A microdata analysis of poverty among older adults in the Netherlands3
Family and work‐related risk factors in children's social–emotional well‐being and parent–educator cooperation in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care3
A scoping review of barriers to education faced by migrant minors in Türkiye3
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The large family penalty in Italy: Poverty and eligibility to minimum incomes3
Poverty in Europe: How long‐term poverty developed following the financial crisis and what drives it3
Improving employability? Individual placement and support for the long‐term unemployed and individuals with developmental disabilities in Finland3
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It's the middle that matters? Income group coalitions in support of redistributive welfare reform3
From social investment to sustainable welfare: Ecological crisis, global justice, and the work‐welfare nexus3
Early marriage and employment in Vietnam3
Disability policies in South Africa and Sweden: A critical policy analysis from a social work perspective3
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The importance of belonging: Interactions between individual and structural risk factors for youth‐disengagement3
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market3
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Social perceptions and representations of unaccompanied foreign minors on social media2
Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos2
Do individualised projects help integrate the long‐term unemployed and disadvantaged people? Lessons from the Czech Republic2
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The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute2
Support for an EU‐wide social policy? A country‐comparative analysis of unemployment perceptions2
Automation and segmentation: Downgrading employment quality among the former “insiders” of Western European labour markets2
Access to social rights under tension: The growing role of third‐party actors in dealing with the administrative burden and its implications2
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours2
Recent challenges and opportunities in Latin American welfare regimes2
Fertility anxiety among Chinese women in the context of fertility policy relaxation: A systematic literature review2
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception2
Why do they leave? Identifying drivers of turnover intention among Chinese social workers with machine learning approach2
Ecosocial work among social welfare professionals in Finland: Key learnings for future practice2
Rural social work in the wake of the COVID ‐19 pandemic: Findings from a scoping review2
Careless hospitality: Family reunification in Ireland involving children and young people of international protection background2
Examining the contemporary challenges of ‘sub‐state’ welfare development: The case of the nascent ‘rights‐based’ benefits system in Wales2
Impact of internal migration on the economic well‐being of local workers and school dropouts among children in Vietnam2
Better job prospects or an imperative to ‘just work’? A cross‐national study on social investment and women's employment2
The association between meaning in life and smartphone addiction among vulnerable children: The moderating role of satisfaction with social work services2
Perceived burdens of interacting with public authorities: How does it influence citizens' state‐encounter behavior?2
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Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation: Expanding the international debate2
The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union2
Smaller net or just fewer to catch? Disentangling the causes for the varying sizes of minimum income schemes2
Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan2
Grandchild caregiving in Hong Kong and implications for intergenerational relationships2
The role of volunteer guardians as a key actor in providing social protection for unaccompanied minors in Italy2
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and welfare interventions: Towards evidence‐based poverty‐alleviation policies in Hong Kong2
Making work pay? Receipt of social benefits in working households in Finland, 2011–20221
Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out‐of‐home care: A Swedish national cohort study1
Experience of guilt in court hearings—Comparing rape, assault and fraud cases1
“Do the right thing”: Immigrant perspectives of social worker support in the United States1
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Exploring the needs of Galápagos youth using photovoice1
Editorial for Special Issue 01/2025 of the International Journal of Social Welfare ‘Characteristics of non‐standard employment and implications for workers and policy‐makers’1
Social assistance policies and food insecurity among the elderly in India in 2017–20181
Dimensions of controversy: Investigating the structure of public support for universal basic income in the Netherlands1
Combining generalist and specialist social work in activation policies: A participatory action research1
Using the Andersen Behavioural Model to explore formal support use among older informal carers in Finland and Sweden1
Care work in different arenas: Working conditions in Swedish eldercare and disability services1
Social establishment among young adults after treatment for substance use problems—A five‐year follow‐up study1
Poverty exposure and poverty persistence for large families in Western Europe. A dynamic perspective1
Do childcare policies and schedule control enhance variable time workers' work–life balance? A gender analysis across European countries1
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Trends in informal and formal home help use among older adults with disabilities in Japan: From 1999 to 20171
Exploring care leavers' agency in achieving entry into the world of work: A cross‐national study in six countries1
The ideological roots of the activation paradigm: How justice preferences and unemployment attributions shape public support for demanding activation policies1
Skill recognition as social investment. Employer perceptions of the value of alternative credentials in the childcare sector1
Work–family and family–work conflict and negative attitudes toward having children: A multilevel cross‐national analysis1
The digital displacement on everyday activities and happiness among Chinese older adults1
Parental mediation patterns and children's digital resilience in rural China: A latent profile analysis1
From self‐care to compassion resilience: Extending the model of protective factors for humanitarian practitioners1
Satisfaction with social care in the UK: Assessing the interactive effects of age and ideology1
Automating social assistance: Exploring the use of robotic process automation in the Swedish personal social services1
Effects of Unemployment benefit sanctions among young adults with and without labour market disadvantages: A register‐based target trial emulation in Finland1
Income‐poor, asset‐rich? The role of homeownership in shaping the welfare position of the elderly1
Exploring split shifts in Swedish elderly care: A case study through the lens of power resources theory1
Transporting attachment and biobehavioral catch‐up to Norwegian child welfare services: A feasibility study1
Exit, voice, and segmentation: Recalibration strategies in South American health care systems1
A six‐year longitudinal study of parenting and depressive symptoms among Taiwanese adolescents1
Does cash transfer program improve recipients' social participation? Evidence from low‐income households data in China1
Association between ostracism and digital addiction: A systematic review and meta‐analysis1
Mandatory learning programme—An offer you can't refuse. Political problem representations and parents' perspectives1
Special Issue on the Challenges for family and child well‐being in the new era1
Validation of the ultra‐short scale for measuring work engagement among social workers in Chinese contexts1
Long maternal working hours were linked to obesity, underweight and stunting in children under age 5 in China1
Is Job Guarantee a solution to work precarisation? A normative analysis and an empirical approach for the Uruguayan case1
Uneven care across states: Disparities in Medicaid 1915(c) home and community‐based services waivers for older adults in the United States1
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies1
Representation of visible minorities in Canada's public service: Slow but significant progression1
Home as a risk environment: Negotiating the boundaries of homes and social relationships in services for people using illicit drugs1
Three challenges of social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: informality, climate change and pandemics1
“They need more programs for the kids:” Low‐income mothers' views of government amidst economic precarity and burdensome programs1
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Uptake of cash benefits among children with a disability in Norway: The role of parental socioeconomic characteristics and immigrant background1
Evolving caregiving landscape in rural China: Older adults' experiences of emerging community‐based eldercare in rural Zhejiang Province1
Gaps between de jure entitlements and de facto benefits: Institutional drift and non‐take‐up in China's maternity benefit system1
The quest for standardisation in adult social work: Municipal guidelines and premises for professional discretion1
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