OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Social Policy is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees	75
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
A tall order. South European welfare states’ readiness for climate-adjusted social policy	33
Shared leave, happier parent couples? Parental leave and relationship satisfaction in Germany	32
The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany	24
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	23
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	20
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
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	18
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	18
Reinforcing unsustainable welfare in Europe? Growth-centrism, Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism in the 2024 EU Europarty election manifestos	17
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	16
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	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
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	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
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	13
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	13
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	13
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	13
Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands	13

Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	13
Quid pro quo? A cross-national analysis of European citizens’ opinions toward the universality and conditionality of a basic income	13
Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin	12
Men in European Union’s gender equality policies	12
Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change	12
Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse	11
A new poverty indicator for Europe: The extended headcount ratio	11
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	9
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	9
What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and mode of delivery	8
COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?	8
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	8
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	8
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	6
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	6
Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges	6
How can we become more equal? Public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany	6
Complementary policy fields in action: Local policies targeted at multi-problem NEETs	6
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions	6
The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries	6
When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure	6
A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism	6
The distant, the capable and trustworthy, and the digitally skilled—the production of client roles in municipal activation and social assistance services using automated decision-making	6