Socio-Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Socio-Economic Review 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The labor of assetization: producing ‘hypergrowth’ inside a tech startup82
‘It’s a who-you-know thing’: interactional fraud prevention in non-bank check cashing79
The art of (self)legitimization: how private museums help their founders claim legitimacy as elite actors39
Persistent or temporary? Effects of social assistance benefit sanctions on employment quality33
Stock market reactions to downsizing announcements: an analysis through an institutional lens31
Control and consent in the connected age: the work of contractors on transnational online education platforms30
Gendered publication patterns in Socio-Economic Review28
Varieties of the rat race: working hours in the age of abundance27
When shareholder power kicks in: corporate financialization as ratchet behaviour and sticky payouts25
In your face: a comparative field experiment on racial discrimination in Europe20
Alternativizing markets: the framing of moral commerce17
Fintech as invasive infrastructure: a critical discourse analysis of corporate newswires and press releases, 1995–202117
On Philip Rathgeb’s How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 202417
Structural adjustment and the political economy of capital flight14
Correction to: Merit recruitment, professional advancement opportunities and prosocial rule-breaking among public servants in Greece14
Rethinking moral hazard: government protection and bank risk-taking14
On Rebecca Elliott’s Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States, Columbia University Press, 202114
Socio-economic framework for the design of national household insolvency systems14
Producerist populist attitudes and electoral support for populism in the USA and Western Europe14
Power and inequality: determinants of income inequality in rich capitalist democracies, 1960 to 201914
Depletion work: climate change and the mediation of stranded assets13
What limits intra-household insurance or the ‘Added Worker Effect’?13
The moral accounting of debts: productivity, deservingness and the consensual creation of Chapter XIII bankruptcy13
Discursive multivocality: how the proliferation of economic language can undermine the political influence of economists13
The financialization of corporate venture capital investment? The corporation as a venture capitalist13
The gender of inheritance in an upper-class family network: Dallas, 1895–194512
Labor market dualism and the heterogeneous wage gap for temporary employment: a multilevel study across 30 countries12
South–south technology transfer: the case of pharmaceutical know-how in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda12
Perceived income inequality, perceived unfairness and subjective social status in Europe12
Correction to: Quality competition on markets: a socio-economic account11
Moral reconciling at career launch: politics, race, and occupational choice11
Digital power resources (DPR): the political economy of structural and infrastructural business power in digital(ized) capitalism11
Harnessing venture capital in China10
Toward a cultural sociology of taxation10
The effects of individual and collective labor market status on employment and earnings during the COVID-19 crisis9
Financial oikonomization: the financial government and administration of the household9
There is high, and there is low: a qualitative examination of framings of inequality that Chinese people apply9
Thanks to our reviewers in 20229
Labor market risks and welfare preferences: a bounded rationality approach9
Signaling virtue or vulnerability? The changing impact of EMU on government bond spreads9
Being a NEET before and after the Great Recession: persistence by gender in Southern Europe9
Models of socio-economic compensation under COVID-19 in Latin America: insiders, outsiders, and the politics of crisis8
Achieving regulatory legitimacy in volatile institutional contexts: the case of Russian non-profits8
What makes elites more or less egalitarian? Variations in attitudes towards inequality within the economic, political and cultural elites in Chile8
Wealth, gender and sexual orientation—evidence from siblings8
Inequality as entitlements over labor8
Strangers in the sheets: how Airbnb hosts overcome uncertainty8
Hyper-elite network building in Madagascar: amplification or compensatory strategy?7
The shift to stock-based compensation and gender inequality in wealth in the United States7
The virus and the vessel, or: how we learned to stop worrying and love surveillance7
Varieties of capitalism and patient capital in developing and emerging economies: evidence from Kenya7
Off to a slow start: which workplace policies can limit gender pay gaps across firm tenure?7
How does a poor labour market affect inequalities in access to postsecondary education? Empirical evidence from 31 affluent countries7
Thanks to our reviewers in 20247
Social mobility and education policy: a district-level analysis of legislative behavior7
The constrained politics of local public investment under cooperative federalism7
Correction to: Rival views of economic competition6
Assessing financialization under international financial subordination: a mixed-methods study of Brazilian and Turkish non-financial corporations6
The value of crypto? Sociotechnical imaginaries on cryptocurrency in YouTube content6
Corrigendum to: The price of ‘golden’ exploitation: How money flows from the super-rich to domestic workers support inequalities6
Getting action for global economic justice: the micro-foundations of transnational activism6
Unequal policy responsiveness in Spain6
The price of ‘golden’ exploitation: How money flows from the super-rich to domestic workers support inequalities6
On David Coen, Alexander Katsaitis and Matia Vannoni’s Business Lobbying in the European Union, Oxford University Press, 20216
No sign of increased ethnic discrimination during a crisis: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic6
‘But Switzerland’s boring’: tax migration and the pull of place-specific cultural capital6
Fixed-term work contracts and anti-immigration attitudes. A novel test of ethnic competition theory6
Making sense of the financialization of households: state of the art and beyond5
From global diffusion to local semantics: unpacking the scientization of central banks5
Rentiership and intellectual monopoly in contemporary capitalism: conceptual challenges and empirical possibilities5
Novel welfare state responses in times of crises: the COVID-19 crisis versus the Great Recession5
Economics as intervention: Expert struggles over quantitative easing at the Bank of England5
Long-term effects of sectarian politics: evidence from Lebanon5
Evolution of fiscal systems: convergence or divergence?5
There is more to national economies than the national economy: extending the Growth Model research programme in comparative political economy5
Closure and matching payoffs from college majors5
Correction to: Trade unions and the partisan preferences of their members: Sweden 1986–20215
Bringing the market in: an expanded framework for understanding popular responses to economic inequality5
Work and life: the relative importance of job quality for general well-being, and implications for social surveys5
Tax principles, policy feedback and self-interest: cross-national experimental evidence on wealth tax preferences5
Politics of delegated governance: reforming vocational education and training4
Our First 20 Years4
How welfare and credit regimes shape economic policies during times of crisis: the case of Covid-194
Antagonism beyond employment: how the ‘subordinated agency’ of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy4
Protégés of power: Patrimonialism in mobility narratives of the Danish power elite4
Skill requirements versus workplace characteristics: exploring the drivers of occupational gender segregation4
How platform businesses mobilize their users and allies: Corporate grassroots lobbying and the Airbnb ‘movement’ for deregulation4
Lobbying to the rhythm of Wall Street? Explaining the political advocacy of non-financial corporations over financial regulatory policy4
Mexico’s battle with monopolies: reputation-based autonomy and self-undermining effects in antitrust enforcement4
Refugee migration, labor demand and local employment4
Correction to: What limits intra-household insurance or the ‘Added Worker Effect’?4
Class origin, intergenerational transfers, and the gender wealth gap4
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: competing policy goals in South African academia4
Quality competition on markets: a socio-economic account4
When does industrial policy fail and when can it succeed? Case studies from Europe4
Upgrading jobs for all: How welfare states shape differences in life satisfaction between the winners and losers of structural change4
Hundred years of corporate planning. From industrial capitalism to intellectual monopoly capitalism through the lenses of the Harvard Business Review (1922–2021)4
In the shadow of hierarchy: minimum wage commissions in the UK and Germany4
Remembering crises: the making of monetary distrust in Argentina4
Is Kenya’s gender wealth gap narrowing? New insights from probate records4
Cooperative enterprise at scale: comparative capitalisms and the political economy of ownership4
On Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics’s The Anatomy of Post-communist Regimes—a conceptual framework, Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 20204
Why right-wing governments restrict market competition: a demographic theory4
Corrigendum to: Cooperative enterprise at scale: comparative capitalisms and the political economy of ownership4
Feeling disadvantaged? Type of employment contract and political attitudes4
Financial accumulation in non-financial corporations: a firm-level assessment for the OECD4
Intergenerational educational mobility and anti-system support: the journey matters4
A phoenix rising? The regeneration of the Ghana garment and textile industry4
Robots and protest: does increased protest among Chinese workers result in more automation?4
Like worker, like union? Labor market risk exposure, white-collar predominance and trade unions’ policy advocacy3
The democratic paradox: are national elections always good for satisfaction with democracy in Europe?3
Do works councils and collective agreements narrow immigrant–native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German-linked employer–employee data3
Navigating uncertainty in networks of social exchange: a relational event study of a community currency system3
The dual economy, climate change, and the polarization of American politics3
On Isabella Weber’s How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate, London, New York: Routledge, 20213
Status hierarchies and norm diffusion: the increase of top incomes in high finance3
Forging monetary unification through novation: the TARGET system and the politics of central banking in Europe3
Thanks to our reviewers in 20233
Among crises: how businesspeople built expectations of resilience in the face of COVID-193
Regulatory capture’s third face of power3
The Silicon Valley imaginary: US corporate tax reform in the 1980s3
Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes3
From the Editors3
Varieties of trade union protest3
Digital creatives and digital engineers: entrepreneurial firms, institutional context, and the organization of innovation3
The paternalist politics of punitive and enabling workfare: evidence from a new dataset on workfare reforms in 16 countries, 1980–20152
How socio-economic inequality affects individuals’ civic engagement: a systematic literature review of empirical findings and theoretical explanations2
On Mariana Mazzucato’s Mission Economy: a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, London, Allen Lane, 20212
The illusion of transparency: the political double standard in city credit ratings2
Moral authority over risk classifications: how data professionals shape the uneven algorithmization of life insurance2
Business power, right-wing populism, and noisy politics: lessons from Brexit and Swiss referendums2
Tax talk in the Rich Lists: from celebrating to scrutinizing the super-rich2
‘It’s the value that we bring’: performance pay and top income earners’ perceptions of inequality2
Economic nostalgia: the salience of economic identity for the Brexit campaign2
Valuations of diversity: the role of marquee quotas in creative industries2
Arrangers and orchestrators: the diverging role of the state in Danish and German vocational education and training2
The adverse consequences of quantitative easing (QE): international capital flows and corporate debt growth in China2
Growth model change in emerging economies: sectorial loci of growth and politics2
Employment status and the on-demand economy: a natural experiment on reclassification2
Class and culture in the making of an assisted living market2
Dismantling labour markets from above: the case of wage policy in the European Union2
Mothers’ and daughters’ employment in Europe. A comparative analysis2
Credit policy and the ‘debt shift’ in advanced economies2
Income support and voting with territorial disparities2
Power resources of labor and the state politics of downsizing2
Class politics in financialized economies: evidence from the United Kingdom, 1983–20192
Between mutuality, autonomy and domination: rethinking digital platforms as contested relational structures2
On Sarah L. Quinn’s American Bonds. How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 20192
Gendered wealth and the challenges of child support in India2
Correction to: Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality2
Rising inequality: is the public response really lacking? A comparative longitudinal analysis of perceived inequality and evaluative attitudes2
Crowdfunding a life: how relationships shape requests for financial assistance2
Managing expectations in financial markets: voluntary accountability practices of capital market regulators in Spain and Turkey2
Explaining political turnarounds on minimum wages: the Italian case in a comparative perspective1
When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide: mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA1
Gender gaps in power and control within jobs1
Income inequality and household debt as a factor of financial fragility in the Spanish economy1
Relative treatment of aliens: how level is the playing field for foreign firms in developing countries?1
Correction to: Protégés of power: Patrimonialism in mobility narratives of the Danish power elite1
Reason-giving for resistance: obfuscation, justification and earmarking in resisting informal financial assistance1
Social investment as a conceptual framework for analysing well-being returns and reforms in 21st century welfare states1
Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run1
Insider–outsider representation and the logic of membership and participation. A multi-level analysis of unions' positions and individual attitudes on welfare state reforms1
Piercing the holding veil to enter family capital: financialization dynamics and structures of the Peugeot family’s capital accumulation 1965–20201
Value fluidity and value anchoring: race, intermediaries and valuation in two housing markets1
Exploring the gender gap in welfare attitudes: relational skills and perceptions of pay equity1
Conceptual limits of performativity: assessing the feasibility of market design blueprints1
The launch of EMU and German export interests1
On Bruce Carruthers, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power and Credit in America, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 20221
Economy or culture? How the relative salience of policy dimensions shapes partisan effects on welfare state generosity1
Have later state pensions made people less connected? The effects of older female pension ages in England on social capital1
Making the ‘business case’: vocabularies of motive and clean tech innovation in the hidden developmental state1
Teaching schools to compete: the case of Swedish upper secondary education1
Labor-inclusive corporatism after democratic transitions: Institutionalization in South Africa and Brazil1
An economic sociology perspective on informal domestic work relations: a study of domestic workers and their employers in Pakistan1
Unionization, licensure and workplace variation in pay inequality between immigrants and natives1
Social debtfare policies and the rise of the creditor-state: The creditization of social policy in Argentina1
Review symposium on: Jens Beckert, How we sold our future. The failure to fight climate change (Polity 2025)1
Classifying the corporation: the role of naturalizing analogies in American corporate development, 1870–19301
Unequal but just? Experimental evidence on (gendered) distributive justice principles in parental financial gifts1
Correction to: Cooperative enterprise at scale: comparative capitalisms and the political economy of ownership1
Small money, large profits: how the cashless revolution aggravates social inequality1
The strings of the ‘golden straitjacket’: sovereign ratings and the welfare state in developed countries1
The logic of patronage: relational work in Cambodian international nongovernmental organizations1
The accumulation–metabolism nexus: internationalization, labour–capital relations, and material flows of French capitalism since the post-war era1
The managerial contradictions of extroverted financialization: the rise and fall of Deutsche Bank1
Finance as a friend, enemy and stranger in the US Economy, 1952–20191
Thanks to our reviewers in 20211
In search of the suitable candidate: the role of status, upstream and downstream diversity in recruitment partnerships1
The gender gap in attitudes toward workplace technological change1
The end of polarization? Evolutions of the distribution of employment across couples in Europe over the past 40 years1
Merit recruitment, professional advancement opportunities and prosocial rule-breaking among public servants in Greece1
Job separation and well-being in couples’ perspective in the United Kingdom1
The transition to the knowledge economy in advanced capitalist democracies: a new index for comparative research1
Protection rent as explanation for racialized market outcomes1
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