OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Social Policy is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	58
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?	39
Flat-rate personal income tax in Lithuania, Romania and Hungary: A revolutionary policy idea without revolutionary outcomes	31
Gendered labour market patterns across Europe: Does family policy mitigate feminization of outsiders?	31
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland	30
The sins of the parents: Conceptualizing adult-oriented reforms to family benefits	24
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults	20
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	20
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	17
Sustaining the unsustainable? The political sustainability of pensions in Finland and the Netherlands	16
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees	15
Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany	15
The value of responsibility, certainty, and child rights for supporting state intervention in the family – An empirical study of populations in six european countries	15
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	14
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending	14
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	14
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	13
Housing tenure and subjective poverty among young European adults: The role of rent regulation	13
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	13
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	12
Politicizing the minimum wage: A multilingual text analysis of minimum wages in European electoral manifestos	12
How wealth matters for social policy	12
Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands	11
Editorial Foreword	10

Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond?	10
Bridging the wealth gap: Simulating universal inheritance in four EU countries	10
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households	10
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	9
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	9
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	9
Parental leave use among newly arrived immigrant mothers in Sweden: Causes and consequences	9
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	9
Do social investment policies reduce income inequality? An analysis of industrial countries	9
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	9
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers	9
Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries	8
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	8
Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The international reproduction policy database	8
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	8
Towards a theorization of the global community welfare regime: Depicting four ideal types of the community’s role in welfare provision	7
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	7
Parent capability: A factorial survey experiment on the duration of parental leave	7
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	7
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	7
The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany	7
Mind the gap: Young people and welfare-state related knowledge in deservingness and welfare attitude research	6
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	6
Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany	6
Automation and public support for workfare	6
COVID-19 hits care homes: A cross-national study of mortality rates	6
Treating nations like people: How responsibility attributions shape citizens’ fiscal solidarity with other EU countries	6
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	5
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	5
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Family as a redistributive principle of welfare states: An international comparison	5
Post-crisis developments in young adults’ housing wealth	5
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	5
What sustains feminized part-time work at the gender equality frontier? Evidence from a vignette experiment	4
Administering the Union citizen in need: Between welfare state bureaucracy and migration control	4
The role and limits of the European Health Insurance Card: (Too) great expectations?	4
Welfare-state selectivity, universality, and social trust in Europe, 2002–2019: Bringing deservingness back in	4
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	4
Unravelling the relationship between employment, social transfers and income poverty: Policy and measurement	3
Redistributive preferences: Why actual income is ultimately more important than perceived income	3
Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	3
Is part-time employment a temporary ‘stepping stone’ or a lasting ‘mommy track’? Legislation and mothers’ transition to full-time employment in Germany	3
Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems: policy and politics	3
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	3
Gendered employment patterns: Women’s labour market outcomes across 24 countries	3
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	3
Family leaves for fathers: Non-users as a test for parental leave reforms	3
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	3
Wealth accumulation and retirement preparedness in cross-national perspective: A gendered analysis of outcomes among single adults	2
Priming or learning? The influence of pension policy information on individual preferences in Germany, Spain and the United States	2

The wage and career consequences of temporary employment in Europe: Analysing the theories and synthesizing the evidence	2
Perceptions and realities: Explaining welfare chauvinism in Europe	2
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	2
Changing household structures, household employment, and poverty trends in rich countries	2
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	2
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	2
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	2
Goodbye to Meltzer-Richard: Testing major theories of redistribution	2
Social rights in a post-colonial welfare state: Revisiting ‘universality’ and ‘inclusivity’	2
Targeted transfers, a left-wing policy? The impact of left-wing governments and corporatism on transfers to low-income families (1982–2019)	2
Building a wall around the welfare state, or around the country? Preferences for immigrant welfare inclusion and immigration policy openness in Europe	2
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	2
A nation of bureaucrats or a nation of workers? Welfare benefits as nation-building modernization tools in interwar Romania	2
Retrenchment without effect? Exploring the link between pension reforms and public pension adequacy of new retirees in seven European countries (1993–2020)	2