Journal of European Social Policy

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution58
Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes?39
Gendered labour market patterns across Europe: Does family policy mitigate feminization of outsiders?31
Flat-rate personal income tax in Lithuania, Romania and Hungary: A revolutionary policy idea without revolutionary outcomes31
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland30
The sins of the parents: Conceptualizing adult-oriented reforms to family benefits24
The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic22
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe20
Intergenerational cohabitation and welfare attitudes among European young adults20
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality17
Sustaining the unsustainable? The political sustainability of pensions in Finland and the Netherlands16
The value of responsibility, certainty, and child rights for supporting state intervention in the family – An empirical study of populations in six european countries15
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees15
Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany15
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending14
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria14
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 195014
Housing tenure and subjective poverty among young European adults: The role of rent regulation13
Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review13
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany13
Politicizing the minimum wage: A multilingual text analysis of minimum wages in European electoral manifestos12
How wealth matters for social policy12
Social policy, public investment or the environment? Exploring variation in individual-level preferences on long-term policies12
Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands11
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 countries10
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households10
Editorial Foreword10
Parental leave use among newly arrived immigrant mothers in Sweden: Causes and consequences9
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions9
Do social investment policies reduce income inequality? An analysis of industrial countries9
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges9
Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers9
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe9
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism9
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries9
Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The international reproduction policy database8
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?8
Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries8
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain8
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