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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees	61
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	44
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	33
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	31
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	29
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	24
The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany	22
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	20
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	18
Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust	18
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	18
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	17
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	16
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	15
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	15
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	14
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	14
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	13
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	13
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	12
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	12
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	12
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	12
A new poverty indicator for Europe: The extended headcount ratio	11

Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	11
Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin	11
Men in European Union’s gender equality policies	11
Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse	10
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	10
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	10
What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and mode of delivery	9
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	9
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	9
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	8
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	8
Complementary policy fields in action: Local policies targeted at multi-problem NEETs	7
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	7
Do social investment policies reduce income inequality? An analysis of industrial countries	7
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	7
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	6
The role and limits of the European Health Insurance Card: (Too) great expectations?	6
Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?	6
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	6
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	6
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed	6
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	6
Post-crisis developments in young adults’ housing wealth	6
Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels?	5
Local cultural context as a moderator of the impact of childcare on maternal employment: Evidence from a natural experiment	5
What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews	5
Sustaining the unsustainable? The political sustainability of pensions in Finland and the Netherlands	4
Racialization through (un-)deservingness: political discourse on poverty migration and access to social rights in Germany	4
Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice	4
Public opposition to fuel taxes in Europe: how important is social disadvantage and how do welfare regimes compare?	4
SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy	4
Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond?	4
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the NEET rate	4
Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article	4
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review	4
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services	4
The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes	4
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions	4
Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation	4
What’s not to like? Benefit design, funding structure and support for universal basic income	4
Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems: policy and politics	3
How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed	3
Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology	3
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers	3
Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis	3
Pensions, policy drift and old-age poverty in Western Europe and North America	3
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union	3
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies	3
Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution	3

Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s	3
On the ambivalence of preferences for income redistribution: A research note	3
Attitudes towards welfare and environmental policies and concerns: A matter of self-interest, personal capability, or beyond?	2
Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics	2
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending	2
Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The international reproduction policy database	2
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults	2
Varying effects of public pensions: Pension spending and old-age employment under different pension regimes	2
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands	2
Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth	2
Poverty in the EU using augmented measures of financial resources: The role of assets and debt	2
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?	2
How wealth matters for social policy	2
Towards a theorization of the global community welfare regime: Depicting four ideal types of the community’s role in welfare provision	2
Middle-class interests, redistribution and the postwar success and failure of the solidaristic welfare state	2