Publications using SPIN

The list below includes key publications using SPIN data. It also contains publications using early and preliminary versions of SPIN data modules, such as SSIB (Svensk socialpolitik i internationell belysning).

2025

Alvariño, M. (2025). Partisan Politics and Feedback Effects: Comparing Defamilialization by Center-Right Parties across Six Familistic Countries. Politics & Society, 53(1), 98–129.
Bekker, S., Larsen, T. P., & Leschke, J. (2025). Unemployment protection in changing labour markets. In Heyes, J., Leschke, J., Newsome, K., Reich, M. and Wilkinson, A. (Eds.), Research Handbook on Decent Work in a Post-COVID-19 World, pp. 131-152. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bergh, A., & Erlingsson, G. Ó. (2025). Retrenchment Without Liberalisation: Making Sense of Sweden's Shift Away From Consensual and Evidence‐Based Politics. Scandinavian Political Studies, 48(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.70000
Breznau, N. (2025). Measuring and Harmonizing Coverage, Generosity and History of Work-Injury Policies Globally. Social Policy & Administration, forthcoming.
Helmdag, J. & Nelson, K. (2025). Sustaining the welfare state in an era of population aging. In Vaalavuo, M., Nelson, K., and Kuitto, K., (Eds.), Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
Nordbrandt, M., Peterson, L., Mårtensson, M., & Palme, J. (2025). Combating climate change through the welfare state: can social insurance boost support for carbon taxes in Europe?. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(1), 81-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2294146

2024

Baghirzade, N. (2024). Global Challenges on the Welfare States: An Institutional Analysis (Doctoral dissertation, Debreceni Egyetem (Hungary)).
Baranowska-Rataj, A., Högberg, B., & Bernardi, L. (2024). Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies. European Sociological Review, 40(2), 276-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad038
Brady, D. (2024). The Welfare State and Economic Inequality. In M.Gangl, L. Platt, J. Polavieja, and H. Van de Wershoft (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification. Oxford University Press. https://bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/brady_welfarestate_ohss_2024.pdf
Czarnecki, K., & Litwiński, M. (2024). Cross-country relationships between student funding policies and student labour. Higher Education Policy, 37(2), 366-391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00308-1
Durocher, D. (2024). Targeted transfers, a left-wing policy? The impact of left-wing governments and corporatism on transfers to low-income families (1982–2019). Journal of European Social Policy, 34(4), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241240317
Fasang, A. E., Andrade, S. B., Bedük, S., Buyukkececi, Z., & Karhula, A. (2024). Lives in welfare states: Life courses, earnings accumulation, and relative living standards in five European countries. American Journal of Sociology, 130(2), 384-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/730851
Karmann, A. (2024). A Gendered Double Movement? Income Security and Family Policy Dynamics Over Three Decades. Femina Politica–Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 33(2), 23-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v33i2.03
Lindemann K. (2024), Family structure and policy contexts: Implications for tertiary education attainment in 25 European countries, European Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae030
Son, K. (2024). Gender cleavage and political parties in 19 welfare states, 1900–1975. Journal of European Public Policy, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2439562

2023

Birnbaum, S., & Nelson, K. (2023). Age Universalism Will Benefit All (Ages). In Bognar, G. and Gosseries, A., editors, Ageing Without Ageism?: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals. Oxford University Press.
Breznau, N. (2023). Institutional Trajectories of the Welfare State: Returns from Social Policy Inception to Modern Public Opinion. In: Roosma, F. & Laenen, T., editors, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare, pages 185–206. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Chevalier, T. (2023). Can the welfare state reduce youth poverty? The determinants of material deprivation and subjective poverty among young people in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231176778
Czarnecki, K., & Litwiński, M. (2023). Cross-country Relationships Between Student Funding Policies and Student Labour. Higher Education Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00308-1
Engeman, C., & Burman, S. (2023). Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions. Social Policy & Administration, 57(5), 626-641. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12882
Heggebø, K., & Pedersen, A. (2023). The Norwegian welfare state adjusting to crisis: Temporary changes in unemployment benefit regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term implications. In: Takle, M., Vedeler, J., Schoyen, M., Klette-Bøhler, K. & Falch-Eriksen, A., editors, Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State, pages 48–63. Routledge.
Hick, R., & Stephens, M. (2023). Housing, the welfare state and poverty: On the financialization of housing and the dependent variable problem. Housing, Theory and Society, 40(1), 78-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2095438
Köppe, S. (2023). Ireland’s paternity leave: sluggish benefit take-up and occupational inequalities. Journal of Family Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2023.2179527
Mårtensson, M., Österman, M., Palme, J., & Ruhs, M. (2023). Shielding free movement? Reciprocity in welfare institutions and opposition to EU labour immigration. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(1), 41–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1981980
Nelson, K., Borg, I., Nieuwenhuis, R., & Alm, S. (2023). The political determinants of housing benefits. European Sociological Review, 39(1), 104-117. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac042
Nelson, K., Lindh, A., & Dalén, P. (2023). Social sustainability in the decarbonized welfare state: Social policy as a buffer against poverty related to environmental taxes. Global Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181231217659
Schreurs, S. (2023). Scharpf revisited: European welfare governance through the lens of actor-centred institutionalism. Journal of European Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2205887

2022

Baranowska-Rataj, A. (2022). The impact of the parental division of paid labour on depressive symptoms: The moderating role of social policies. Acta Sociologica, 65(3), 275-292. DOI: 10.1177/00016993211066261
Baranowska-Rataj, A., Högberg, B., & Bernardi, L. (2022). Parental unemployment and adolescent wellbeing – the moderating role of educational policies. LIVES Working Paper, 91/2022. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2022.91
Biegert, T., Brady, D., & Hipp, L. (2022). Cross-national variation in the relationship between welfare generosity and single mother employment. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 702(1), 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162221120760
Billingsley, S., Neyer, G., & Wesolowski, K. (2022). Social investment policies and childbearing across 20 countries: Longitudinal and micro-level analyses. European Journal of Population 38(5), 951–974. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-022-09626-3
Bridgen, P., Meyer, T., & Davison, L. (2022). It’s not late entry: human capital, welfare states and the pension penalty experienced by post-war migrants who retired in the European Economic Area. Ageing & Society, 1-33. https://10.1017/S0144686X21001811
Buyn, Y-H. (2022). Welfare expansion without inequality reduction: Institutional explanation of old-age poverty in Korea. Journal of Social Policy, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000460
Calnitsky, D. (2022). The policy road to socialism. Critical Sociology, 48(3), 397-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205211031624
Czarnecki, K. (2022). Political party families and student social rights. Journal of European Social Policy, 32(3), 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221080704
Dingeldey, I., & Gerlitz, J. Y. (2022). Not just black and white, but different shades of grey: Legal segmentation and its effect on labour market segmentation in Europe. International Labour Review, 161(4), 593-613. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12336
Diop-Christensen, A., & Diop, L. (2022). What do asylum seekers prioritise – safety or welfare benefits? The influence of policies on asylum flows to the EU15 countries. Journal of Refugee Studies, 35(2), 849-873. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feab077
Diop-Christensen, A., & Diop, L. (2022). Modelling the inflow of asylum seekers into Northern Europe: are access to generous welfare benefits and other policies affecting destination choice?. In: Larsen, A. (ed.) Migrants and Welfare States: Balancing Dilemmas in Northern Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Fernandes, D. (2022). Governments, public opinion, and social policy: change in Western Europe (Doctoral dissertation, European University Institute). https://doi.org/10.2870/045489
Ferragina, E., & Deeming, C. (2022). Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis. In: Nelson, K., Nieuwenhuis, R. & Yerkes, M. (eds.) Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gray, E., Reimondos, A., Lazzari, E., Breuinig, R., Steinhauser, R., Zhang, J., Biddle, N., & Gray, M. (2022). Impacts of Policies on Fertility Rates. Australian National University. Retrieved from: https://population.gov.au/sites/population.gov.au/files/2022-03/ANU_Impacts-of-Policies-on-Fertility-Rates-Full-report.pdf
Giordano, C. (2022). Ethnicisation and Domesticisation: The Impact of Care, Gender and Migration Regimes on Paid Domestic Work in Europe. Springer Publishing.
Jozwiak, A. (2022). It’s a family (policy) affair: family policies and heterogeneity in gender attitudes. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 29(1), 215-239. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab007
Kayran, E.N., & Kolbe., M. (2022). Institutional sources of trust resilience in diverse societies: The mitigating role of inclusive and egalitarian welfare state institutions. In Crepaz, M. M. L. (Ed.) Handbook on Migration and Welfare, pp. 276-296. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Kunißen, K. (2022). The Independent Variable Problem: Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept. Springer Publishing
Morosow, K., & Cooke, L. P. (2022). The impact of taking family leaves across Finnish fathers’ wage distribution. Social Forces, 101(1), 202-226. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soab106
Ose, S. O., Kaspersen, S. L., Leinonen, T., Verstappen, S., de Rijk, A., Spasova, S., ... & Kalseth, J. (2022). Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries. Health policy, 126(7), 619-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.002
Röth, L., Spies, D., Schmidt-Catran, A. (2022). From immigration over redistributive attitudes to welfare spending. The moderating role of social program design. European Political Science Review, 14, 498-519. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773922000327
Van Gerven, M., Mesiäislehto, M., Saikku, P., Ollonqvist, J., Malava, T., & Tuominen, N. (2022). Eri poluilla työllisyyteen: Suomen sosiaaliturvajärjestelmän erityispiirteet ja ongelmakohdat kansainvälisessä vertailussa. Valtioneuvoston Selvitys- ja Tutkimustoiminnan Julkaisusarja, 2022:51. Retrieved from: https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/164254/VNTEAS_2022_51.pdf?sequence=1
Wesolowski, K., & Billingsley, S. (2022). Family Policies: How Do They Differ Around the World?. In: May, J. & Goldstone, J., editors, International Handbook of Population Policies, pp. 383–396. Springer Publishing. https://10.1007/978-3-031-02040-7_17
Wiß, T. (2022). Continental European welfare states. In Greve, B. (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States, 65-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721768-005
Yörük, E., Öker, I., & Tafoya, G. R. (2022). The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes. Journal of European Social Policy, 32(2), 119-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287211050520

2021

Ayaz, M., Fricke, L., Fuest, C., & Sachs, D. (2021). Who Should Bear the Burden of Covid-19 Related Fiscal Pressure? An Optimal Income Taxation Perspective. CESifo Working Paper, No. 9420, Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich.
Baranowska-Rataj, A., Högberg, B., & Bernardi, L. (2021). Parental unemployment and adolescent wellbeing: The moderating role of educational policies. Retrieved from: https:// www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1612298.
Baranowska-Rataj, A., & Strandh, M. (2021). When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too: The effects of partner’s employment status on health in comparative perspective. Journal of European Social Policy, 31(2), 143-160.
Bolukbasi, H. T., Öktem, K. G., & Savaş, E. (2021). Measuring welfare states beyond the three worlds: Refining state-of-the-art tools. Social Policy & Administration. Online first article, doi:10.1111/spol.12708.
Bradshaw, J., & Nieuwenhuis, R. (2021). Poverty and the family in Europe. In: Schneider, N. & Kreyenfeld, M., editors, Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family, pages 400–416. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bridgen, P. (2021). Incremental or paradigm-shifting? Evidence about the retrenchment of public pension schemes in the industrialised world from expenditure and replacement rate data, 1980-2015. In Greve, B. (Ed.), Handbook on Austerity, Populism, and the Welfare State, pp. 244-264. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cronert, A. (2021). Unemployment benefits in the 21st century: New dimensions of retrenchment and the roles of austerity and populism. In Greve, B., editor, Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State, pages 265–280. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Czarnecki, K., Korpi, T., & Nelson, K. (2021). Student support and tuition fee systems in comparative perspective. Studies in Higher Education, 46(11), 2152-2166. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1716316
del Pino, E., Sátyro, N., & Midaglia, C. (2021). The Latin American Social Protection Systems in Action: Triggers and Outcomes of Reforms at the Start of the Twenty-First Century. In: Sátyro, N., del Pino, E. & Midaglia, C. Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century, pages 1–29. Springer Publishing.
Diop-Christensen, A. and Diop, L. E. (2021). What do asylum seekers prioritise—safety or welfare benefits? The influence of policies on asylum flows to the EU15 countries. Journal of Refugee Studies. Online first article, doi:10.1093/jrs/feab077/6329893.
Forslund, M. (2021). Is it adding up? The cumulative effect of sickness benefits on life expectancy in old age in 15 OECD countries 1960–2015. Health & Place, 70:102607.
Fredriksson, D. (2021). Reducing unemployment? Examining the interplay between active labour market policies. Social Policy & Administration, 55(1):1–17.
Järvi, L. (2021). From Substitutive to Supplementary: Institutional Interplay between Public and Occupational Sickness Benefits in Finland, 1947-2016. European Journal of Social Security, 23(1), 62-80.
Jutz, R. (2021). Health inequalities in Europe: Does a minimum income protection make a difference?. Current Sociology, 69(1), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392119890657
Mårtensson, M., Österman, M., Palme, J., and Ruhs, M. (2021). Shielding free movement? Reciprocity in welfare institutions and opposition to EU labour immigration. Journal of European Public Policy. Online first article, doi:10.1080/13501763.2021.1981980.
Nelson, K. and Nieuwenhuis, R. (2021). Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage. Journal of European Social Policy, 31(3):352–362.
Nieuwenhuis, R., Goedemé, T., Dalén, P., Delanghe, H., Doctrinal, L., Nelson, K., Sirén, S., & Penne, T. (2021). A New Framework for Data on Public Service: Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Compulsory Education. Deliverable 9.6, Leuven, InGRID-2 project. Retrieved from: https://www.inclusivegrowth.eu/files/Output/D9.6_updated-on-website_EIND.pdf
Otto, A., Bártová, A., & Van Lancker, W. (2021). Measuring the generosity of parental leave policies. Social Inclusion, 9(2), 238-249. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i2.3943
Rasmussen, M., & Knutsen, C. (2021). Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development. British Journal of Political Science, 51(3), 1203–1229.
Wesolowski, K., Billingsley, S., Neyer, G. (2021). Family policy support for the earner-carer and traditional-family models in Lithuania and Sweden. In Aidukaite, J., Hort, S.E.O., Kuhnle, S. (Eds.), Challenges to the Welfare State: Family and Pension Policies in the Baltic and Nordic Countries, 72-94. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2020

Bandau, F., & Ahrens, L. (2020). The impact of partisanship in the era of retrenchment: Insights from quantitative welfare state research. Journal of European Social Policy, 30(1), 34-47.
de Breij, S., Huisman, M., & Deeg, D. J. (2020). Educational differences in macro-level determinants of early exit from paid work: a multilevel analysis of 14 European countries. European Journal of Ageing, 17(2), 217-227.
de Breij, S., Huisman, M., & Deeg, D.J. (2020). Macro-level determinants of post-retirement health and health inequalities: A multilevel analysis of 18 European countries. Social Science & Medicine, 245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112669
Breznau, N. (2020). Bi-Directional Feedback to the Welfare State and Public Opinion. Retrieved from: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/h8aqe/.
Damme, M. (2020). The negative female educational gradient of union dissolution: Towards an explanation in six European countries. In Mortelmans, D. (Ed.), Divorce in Europe: New insights in trends, causes and consequences of relation break-ups (pp. 93-122).
Ferragina, E. (2020). Family policy and women's employment outcomes in 45 high-income countries: A systematic qualitative review of 238 comparative and national studies. Social Policy & Administration, 54(7), 1016-1066.
Herd, D., Kim, Y., & Carrasco, C. (2020). Canada's Forgotten Poor?: Putting Singles Living in Deep Poverty on the Policy Radar. IRPP. Retrieved from: https://irpp.org/wp-content/ uploads/2020/09/Canada-Forgotten-Poor-Putting-Singles-Living-in-Deep-Poverty-on-the Policy-Radar.pdf.
Kenworthy, L. (2020). Social Democratic Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Knutsen, C. H., & Rasmussen, M. B. (2020). Majoritarian systems, rural groups, and (arrested) welfare state development. International Political Science Review, 41(2), 238– 254.
Maldonado, L. C. and Nieuwenhuis, R. (2020). Dual-earner family policies at work for single-parent families. In Nieuwenhuis, R. & van Lancker, W. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy (pp. 303-330). Springer Nature Switzerland.
Nelson, K., Fredriksson, D., Korpi, T., Korpi, W., Palme, J. and O. Sjöberg. (2020). The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database. International Journal of Social Welfare. 29 (3). 285–289.
Nieuwenhuis, R., Nelson, K., & Fredriksson, D. (2020). Introducing the SPIN visualization tool. Deliverable 1.6, Leuven, InGRID-2 project. Retrieved from: https://www.inclusivegrowth.eu/files/Output/D1.6-Spin-visualization-tool.pdf.
Noël, A. (2020). Is social investment inimical to the poor?. Socio-Economic Review, 18(3), 857–880.
Noël, A. (2020). The politics of minimum income protection in the Canadian provinces. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 53(2), 399– 420.
Palme, M., & Persson, M. (2020). Sick Pay Insurance and Sickness Absence: Some European Cross-Country Observations and a Review of Previous Research. Journal of Economic Surveys, 34(1), 85-108.
Seo, C. H. (2020). A Study on Factors Influencing the Status of the Working Poor in Welfare States. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Arlington. Retrieved from: https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ed7554a36890242284eb4fa4c306f94/1?pq-origsite= gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y.
Swank, D. (2020). The partisan politics of new social risks in advanced postindustrial democracies: Social protection for labor market outsiders. In Careja, R., Emmenegger, P., and Giger, N., editors, The European Social Model under Pressure: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Klaus Armingeon, pages 139–157. Springer VS.
Van Damme, M. (2020). The negative female educational gradient of union dissolution: Towards an explanation in six European countries. In Divorce in Europe (pp. 93-122). Cham: Springer.
Van Gunten, T., & Kohl, S. (2020). The inversion of the ‘really big trade-off’: homeownership and pensions in long-run perspective. West European Politics, 43(2), 435-463.
Van Lancker, W. & Nieuwenhuis, R. (2020). Conclusion: The Next Decade of Family Policy Research. In: Niueuwenhuis, R. & Van Lancker, W., The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, pages 683–706. Springer Publishing.
Wesolowski, K. (2020). It’s all about the money? Family policies, individual gender-role attitudes, and childbearing intentions in an international perspective. Journal of Family Issues, 41(11), 2065–2089.
Wesolowski, K., Billingsley, S., & Neyer, G. (2020). Disentangling the complexity of family policies: SPIN data with an application to Lithuania and Sweden, 1995–2015. Demographic Research, 43, 1235-1262.
Öktem, K. G. (2020). The welfare state as universal social security: A global analysis. Social Inclusion, 8(1), 103-113.

2019

de Breij, S., Huisman, M., & Deeg, D. J. (2020). Educational differences in macro-level determinants of early exit from paid work: a multilevel analysis of 14 European countries. European Journal of Ageing, 17(2), 217-227.
Bridgen, P. (2019). The retrenchment of public pension provision in the liberal world of welfare during the age of austerity—and its unexpected reversal, 1980–2017. Social Policy & Administration, 53(1), 16–33.
Böger, T., & Öktem, K. G. (2019). Levels or worlds of welfare? Assessing social rights and social stratification in Northern and Southern countries. Social Policy & Administration, 53(1), 63–77.
Ciccia, R., & Guzmán-Concha, C. (2019). Protest and the politics of unemployment insurance: Reforming welfare states in times of austerity. In Fallov, M.A., & Blad, C. (Eds.), Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era, (pp. 88-118). Koninlijke Brill.
Fredriksson, D. (2019). Enabling employment?: Drivers and outcomes of active labour market policies in comparative perspective. Doctoral dissertation. Stockholm: Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
Gschwind, L., Nyman, P., & Palme, J. (2019). Unemployment benefits, EU migrant workers, and the cost of social protection in European welfare states. REMINDER Working Paper. Retrieved from: https://www.reminder-project.eu/publications/working-papers/
Jutz, R. (2019). The impact of social policies on health inequalities in Europe. (Doctoral dissertation). Universität Mannheim.
Kunißen, K. (2019). From dependent to independent variable: A critical assessment of operationalisations of ‘welfare stateness’ as macro-level indicators in multilevel analyses. Social Indicators Research, 142, 597-616. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1930-3
Köppe, S. (2019). Ireland’s paternity benefit: belated social investment. Geary WP2019/05. Retrieved from: https://www.ucd.ie/geary/static/publications/workingpapers/gearywp201905.pdf
Marchal, S., Siöland, L., & Goedemé, T. (2019). Using HHoT to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators (No. EM4/19). EUROMOD Working Paper. Retrieved from: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ese/emodwp/em4-19.html.
Morris, K. A., Beckfield, J., & Bambra, C. (2019). Who benefits from social investment? The gendered effects of family and employment policies on cardiovascular disease in Europe. J Epidemiol Community Health, 73(3), 206-213.
Noël, A. (2019). The politics of minimum income protection in OECD countries. Journal of Social Policy, 48(2), 227–247.
Orsitto, D. (2019). Rising to the populist challenge: Social security prescriptions for the Italian welfare state. Perspectives on Federalism, 11(2), 1-26. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Davide-Orsitto/publication/333645266_Rising_to_the_Populist_Challenge_Social_Security_prescriptions_for_the_Italian_Welfare_State/links/5cf927c292851c874c51930e/Rising-to-the-Populist-Challenge-Social-Security-prescriptions-for-the-Italian-Welfare-State.pdf
Ozkan, U. R. (2019). The origins of severance pay in unemployment compensation: a comparative analysis. Labor History, 60(4), 351–371.
Palme, J., & Ruhs, M. (2019). Indicators of labour markets and welfare states in the European Union. REMINDER Working Paper. Retrieved from: https://www.reminder-project. eu/publications/working-papers/
Sirén, S. (2019). Välfärdspolitik och jämlikhet. Insikter från jämförande socialpolitisk forskning. Landsorganisationen i Sverige. Retrieved from: https://www.lo.se/home/lo/ res.nsf/vRes/lo_fakta_1366027478784_valfardspolitik_jamlikhet_pdf/$File/ Valfardspolitik_jamlikhet.pdf.
Swank, D., & Betz, H. G. (2019). Do Radical Right Populist Parties Matter? The Case of the European Welfare State. Working Paper. Retrieved from: https://www.marquette.edu/ political-science/directory/documents/swank-rrp-paper.pdf.
Wesolowski, K., Billingsley, S., & Neyer, G. (2019). Family policy support for the earner-carer and traditional family models: An application of SPIN data to Lithuania and Sweden, 1995-2015. Working Paper 2019: 3. Retrieved from: https://su.figshare.com/articles/ preprint/ Family_policy_support_for_the_earner_carer_and_traditional_family_models_An_applicati on_of_SPIN_data_to_Lithuania_and_Sweden_1995-2015/11370726.
Yörük, E., Öker, İ., Yıldırım, K., & Yakut-Çakar, B. (2019). The variable selection problem in the three worlds of welfare literature. Social Indicators Research, 144(2): 625–646.
Öktem, K. G. Exploring Path Departure: The Transformation of Unemployment Insurance in Turkey (1999-2019). Retrieved from: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/massit/Working Paper-IV.pdf

2018

Billingsley, S., Neyer, G., & Wesolowski, K. (2018). The influence of family policies on women’s childbearing: A longitudinal micro-data analysis of 21 countries. Working Paper 2018:04, Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe, SPaDE. Retrieved from: https://www.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.393546.1530869888!/menu/standard/file/WP_2018_04.pdf
Beckfield, J., Morris, K. A., & Bambra, C. (2018). How social policy contributes to the distribution of population health: the case of gender health equity. Scandinavian journal of public health, 46(1), 6-17.
Bolukbasi, H.T., & Öktem, K.G. (2018). Conceptualizing and operationalizing social rights: Towards higher convergent validity in SCIP and CWED. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(1), 86-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928717700565
Daly, M., & Ferragina, E. (2018). Family policy in high-income countries: Five decades of development. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(3): 255–270.
Esser, I., & Lindh, A. (2018). Job preferences in comparative perspective 1989–2015: A multidimensional evaluation of individual and contextual influences. International Journal of Sociology, 48(2), 142–169.
Esser, I., & Olsen, K.M. (2018). Matched on job qualities? Single and coupled parents in European comparison. In Nieuwenhuis, R. and Maldonado, L., (Eds.), The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Well-Being, (pp. 285-310). Policy Press.
Eugster, B. (2018). Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrants’ social rights. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(5), 452-470.
Högberg, B. (2018). Gender and health among older people: what is the role of social policies?. International Journal of Social Welfare, 27(3), 236-247.
Högberg, B., Strandh, M., Baranowska-Rataj, A., & Sevä, I. J. (2018). Ageing, health inequalities and the welfare state: A multilevel analysis. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(4), 311–325.
Köppe, S. (2018). Sweden: What Crisis? Welfare State Expansion during the Oil Crisis. In Erik Eklund, Melanie Oppenheimer and Joanne Scott (eds). The State of Welfare. Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965-1980. Brussels: Peter Lang.
Lohmann, H., & Zagel, H. (2018). Comparing family policies: approaches, methods and databases. In Eydal, G. B. & Rostgaard, T., Handbook of family policy, pp. 48–65, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Nieuwenhuis, R., Tøge, A.G., Palme, J. (2018). The health penalty of single parents in institutional context. In Nieuwenhuis, R. and Maldonado, L., (Eds.), The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Well-Being, (pp. 311-334). Policy Press.
Obinger, H., Petersen, K., Schmitt, C., and Starke, P. (2018). War and welfare states before and after 1945: Conclusions and perspectives. In Obinger, H., Petersen, K., and Starke, P., editors, Warfare and Welfare: Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries, pages 426–462. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Rasmussen, M. B., & Pontusson, J. (2018). Working-class strength by institutional design? Unionization, partisan politics, and unemployment insurance systems, 1870 to 2010. Comparative Political Studies, 51(6), 793–828.
Temesváry, Z. (2018). Minimum income protection schemes in the Central and Eastern European countries. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 9(2), 113–133
Wang, J., van Vliet, O., & Goudswaard. K. (2018). Minimum income protection and EU coordination. European Journal of Social Security, 20(3), 253-271. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1388262718798896
Wesolowski, K. & Ferrarini, T. (2018). "Family policies and fertility: Examining the link between family policy institutions and fertility rates in 33 countries 1995-2011", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 38(11/12), 1057-1070.

2017

Arlotti, M. & Sabatinelli, S. (2017). Assessing income support where no national minimum income scheme exists. Is it possible to apply the model family method to the Italian case? International Review of Sociology, 27:1, 142–159.
Bandau, F. (2017). The Impact of Partisanship in the Era of Retrenchment. Insights from Quantitative Welfare State Research. University of Bamberg.
Bárcena-Martín, E., Blázquez, M., Budría, S., & Moro-Egido, A. I. (2017). Child deprivation and social benefits: Europe in cross-national perspective. Socio-Economic Review, 15(4), 717-744.
Biegert, T. (2017). Welfare benefits and unemployment in affluent democracies: The moderating role of the institutional insider/outsider divide. American Sociological Review, 82(5), 1037-1064.
Birnbaum, S., Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K. & Palme, J. (2017). The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bäckman, O., & Nelson, K. (2017). The egalitarian paradise?. In Nedergaard, P. & Wivel, A., editors, The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics, pp. 25–35). Routledge. Birnbaum, S., Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K. & Palme, J. (2017). The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bölükbasi, T. & Öktem, K. G. (2017). Conceptualizing and operationalizing social rights: Towards higher convergent validity in SCIP and CWED. Journal of European Social Policy, 1-15
Chzhen, Y. (2017). Unemployment, social protection spending and child poverty in the European Union during the Great Recession. Journal of European Social Policy, 27(2), 123-137
Dewilde, C. (2017). Do housing regimes matter? Assessing the concept of housing regimes through configurations of housing outcomes. International Journal of Social Welfare, 2017:26, 384-404.
Doctrinal, L., Fredriksson, D., Nelson, K. & Sirén, S. (2017). Inventory on core social policy databases and indicators for comparative research. Deliverable 22.1, Leuven, InGRID project.
Elkjær, M.A. (2017). Unequal representation in low inequality contexts? Testing the comparative scope of differential responsiveness. Prepared for the Political Economy Workshop at Harvard University. Retrieved from: https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/archive/list/gov3007-l@lists.fas.harvard.edu/message/ZKCVMYW5UNPBXHU5AQCGJ22YCVXD5K3M/attachment/4/Elkjaer_UnequalRepresentationinLowInequalityContexts.pdf
Esser, I. (2017). Lone parents’ self-rated health in European comparative perspective: Socio-economic factors, job quality and social protection. In Portier-Le Cocq, F. (Ed.), Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting (pp.180-207). Routledge.
Iacono, R. (2017). Minimum income schemes in Europe: is there a trade-off with activation policies? IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 6(1), 1-15.
König, S. (2017). Career histories as determinants of gendered retirement timing in the Danish and Swedish pension systems. European Journal of Ageing, 14, 397-406.
Leibetseder, B., Gubrium, E., Dierckx, D., Fluder, R., Hauri, R., & Raeymaeckers, P. (2017). Subsidiarity and social citizenship: Social assistance schemes in Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Norway. International Journal of Social Welfare, 26(4), 353-365.
Marchal, S. (2017). The social floor: essays on minimum income protection. (Doctoral dissertation). Antwerp University.
Nelson, K. (2017). Lower unemployment benefits and old-age pensions is a major setback in social policy. Sociologisk forskning, 54(4): 287-291.
Rasmussen, M. & Pontusson, HJ. (2017). Working-class strength by institutional design? Unionization, partisan politics and unemployment insurance systems, 1870-2010. Comparative Political Studies.

2016

Bártová, A. & Emery, T. (2016). Measuring policy entitlements at the micro-level: maternity and parental leave in Europe. Community, Work & Family.
Grotti, R., & Scherer, S. The economic consequences of job-loss. Evidence from Germany and the US. Retrieved from: https://www.aiel.it/cms/cms-files/submission/ all20160614165903.pdf.
Hussain, M.A. (2016). EU Country Rankings’ Sensitivity to the Choice of Welfare Indicators. Social Indicators Research, 125:1, 1-17
Knotz, C. M. (2016). Getting Tough on Unemployment: Essays on the politics of unemployment benefit reform in affluent democracies. (Doctoral dissertation). Lund.
Kuitto, K. (2016). Measuring Welfare Entitlement Generosity in Transitional Welfare States: The Case of Post-communist Countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Social Indicators Research, 1-22.
König, S., Hess, M., & Hofäcker, D. (2016). Trends and determinants of retirement transition in Europe, the USA and Japan: A comparative overview. In Hofäcker, D. Hess, M., & König, S., eds., Delaying retirement, pp. 23–51.
Lundberg, O., Dahl, E., Fritzell, J., Palme, J., & Sjöberg, O. (2016). Social Protection, Income and Health Inequalities: Final Report from Task Group on GDP, Taxes, Income and Welfare. Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region. Retrieved from: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:682682/FULLTEXT01.pdf.
Pontusson, H. J., & Rasmussen, M. (2016). Working-class strength by institutional design? Unionization, partisan politics and unemployment insurance systems, 1870-2010. Retrieved from: https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:89285/ATTACHMENT01.

2015

Arnold, D. (2015). On the Economics of Sickness Absence and Presenteeism. Doctoral Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades des Fachbereichs IV der Universitat Trier.
Crettaz, E. (2014) Poverty and material deprivation among European workers in times of crisis. International Journal of Social Welfare, 24(4): 312–323.
Doctrinal, L., Nelson, K. & Sirén, S. (2015). Comprehensive indicators for the analysis of out-of-work benefits: Introducing the Out-of-Work Benefits Dataset. InGRID Deliverable 22.3. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
Korpi, T., Bäckman, O. & Minas, R. (2015). Att möta globaliseringen. Utbildning, aktivering och social exkludering i Norden. TemaNord, Nordiska ministerrådet 2015:534.
Quesnel-Vallée, A., Willson, A. & Reiter-Campeau, S. (2015). Health Inequalities Among Older Adults In Developed Countries: Reconciling Theories and Policy Approaches. Population Change and Lifecourse Strategic Knowledge Cluster Discussion Paper Series/ Un Réseau stratégique de connaissances Changements de population et parcours de vie Document de travail: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 6.
Wang, J., van Vliet, O., & Goudswaard, K. (2015). Social assistance benefits and European coordination. Department of Economics, Leiden University. Retrieved from: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66147/1/MPRA_paper_66147.pdf
Wesolowski, K. (2015). Maybe Baby?: Reproductive Behaviour, Fertility Intentions, and Family Policies in Post-communist Countries, with a Special Focus on Ukraine. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

2014

Beer, C., Köhler-Töglhofer, W., Stiglbauer, A. (2014). A common European unemployment insurance – A much debated route toward European fiscal union. Monetary Policy and the Economy, 4, 35-52.
Berglund, T., & Esser, I. (2014). Modell i förändring. Landrapport om Sverige. (Fafo-rapport 2014:10. NordMod2030, Delrapport 8). Oslo: FAFO.
Brambor, T. & Lindvall, J. (2014). Fiscal capacity, domestic compensation, and trade policy: a long-term view. Näringslivets forskningsinstitut
Billingsley, S., & Ferrarini, T. (2014). Family policy and fertility intentions in 21 European countries. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(2), 428-445.
Chzhen, Y. (2014). Child poverty and material deprivation in the European Union during the Great Recession. Innocenti Working Paper No.2014-06, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence.
Chzhen, Y. (2014). Subjective Impact of the Economic Crisis on Households with Children in 17 European Countries. Innocenti Working Paper No.2014-09, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence.
Danforth, B. (2014). Worlds of welfare in time: A historical reassessment of the three-world typology. Journal of European Social Policy, 24(2), 164-182.
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., & Sjoberg, O. (2014). Decomposing the effect of social policies on population health and inequalities: An empirical example of unemployment benefits. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 42(7), 635–642.
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., & Sjöberg, O. (2014). Unemployment insurance and deteriorating self-rated health in 23 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 657–662.
Fritzell, J., Bacchus Hertzman, J., Bäckman, O., Borg, I., Ferrarini, T. & Nelson, K (2014). Sweden: Increasing Income Inequalities and Changing Social Relations. In Nolan, B., Salverda, W., Checchi, D., Marx, I., McKnight, A., Tóth, I. G., & van de Werfhorst, H. G. (Eds.), Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences (pp. 641-666). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Grünewald, A. (2014). Social Security around the World: A Review of Datasets. ZeS-Working Paper No. 03/2014
Hagelund, A (2014). From economic incentives to dialogic nudging – the politics of change and inertia in Norwegian sickness insurance. Journal of Social Policy, 43, 69-85.
Knotz, C., & Lindvall, J. (2014). Coalitions and Compensation The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration. Comparative Political Studies.
Nelson, K., & Fritzell, J. (2014). Welfare states and population health: The role of minimum income benefits for mortality. Social Science & Medicine, 112, 63-71.
Obadic, A., Dragicevic, M. (2014). A new labor market approach: Keeping jobs and enhancing labour market flexibility. In Bendekovic, J., Klacmer Calopa, M. & Filipovic, D. (Eds.), Economic and Social Development, 6th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development and 3rd Eastern European ESD Conference: Business Continuity, Book of Proceedings (pp. 23-35). Varazdin: Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency.
Obinger, H., Starke, P. (2014). Welfare state transformation: Convergence and the rise of the supply side model (TranState Working Papers, No. 180). Bremen: University of Bremen.
Wang, J. & Vliet, van, O. (2014) Social assistance and minimum income benefits: Benefit levels, replacement rates and policies across 33 countries, 1990 – 2009. Department of Economics Research Memorandum 2014.04. Leiden: Leiden University.

2013

Arnold, D. (2013). Benefit morale and cross‐country diversity in sick pay entitlements. Kyklos, 66(1), 27-45.
Danforth, B., & Stephens, J. D. (2013). Measuring social citizenship: achievements and future challenges. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(9), 1285-1298.
Esser, I., Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., Palme, J., & Sjöberg, O. (2013). Unemployment Benefits in EU Member States. Brussels: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission.
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., Korpi, W., & Palme, J. (2013). Social citizenship rights and social insurance replacement rate validity: pitfalls and possibilities. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(9), 1251-1266.
Hay, C (2013). The British Growth Crisis: a Crisis of and for Growth (SPERI paper No. 1). Sheffield: University of Sheffield.
Korpi, W., Ferrarini, T., & Englund, S. (2013). Women's opportunities under different family policy constellations: gender, class, and inequality tradeoffs in Western countries re-examined. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 20(1), 1-40.
Montanari, I., & Nelson, K. (2013). Social service decline and convergence: How does healthcare fare?. Journal of European Social Policy, 23(1), 102-116.
Nelson, K. (2013). Social assistance and EU poverty thresholds 1990–2008. Are European welfare systems providing just and fair protection against low income? European sociological review, 29(2), 386-401.
Petrovic, M (2013). Social assistance and activation in the pursuit of happiness: Shedding new light on old policy solutions to social exclusion (Doctoral dissertation). Maastricht: Maastricht University.
Schmitt, C., & Obinger, H. (2013). Spatial interdependencies and welfare state generosity in Western democracies, 1960-2000. Journal of European Social Policy, 23(2), 119-133. DOI: 10.1177/0958928712463159
Schäfer, A (2013). Liberalization, Inequality and Democracy’s Discontent. In Streeck, W., & Schäfer, A. Politics in the Age of Austerity (pp 169-195). Cambridge: Polity Press.
Spannagel, D. (2013) In-work poverty in Europe: Extent, structure and causal mechanisms. Combating Poverty in Europe (COPE).
Ugreninov, E., Hvinden, B., & Nordvik, V (2013). Can work-family policies reduce the poverty gap between one-parent and two-parent households? A multi-level analysis of child poverty across 25 European countries. Combating Poverty in Europe (COPE).
Umaphati, N., Wang, D., & O’Keefe, P. (2013). Eligibility Thresholds for Minimum Living Guarantee Programs: International Practices and Implications for China (Social Protection nd labor discussion paper no. 1307). Washington, DC: World Bank.
Van Der Waal, J., De Koster, W., & Van Oorschot, W. (2013). Three worlds of welfare chauvinism? How welfare regimes affect support for distributing welfare to immigrants in Europe. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 15(2), 164-181.
Wenzelburger, G., Zohlnhöfer, R., & Wolf, F. (2013). Implications of dataset choice in comparative welfare state research. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(9), 1229-1250.
Wincott, D. (2013). The (Golden) age of the welfare state: Interrogating a conventional wisdom. Public Administration, 91(4), 806-822.

2012

Backhans, M., Burström, B., de Leon, A. P., & Marklund, S. (2012). Is gender policy related to the gender gap in external cause and circulatory disease mortality? A mixed effects model of 22 OECD countries 1973–2008. BMC public health, 12(1), 969.
Bäckman, O. & Ferrarini, T. (2012). Men de äro rysligt dyra - barn, fattigdom och familjepolitik. Framtider (1/2012), 9-11.
Elu-Terán, A. (2012). Has social security policy converged? Cross-country evolution of old age benefits, 1890–2000. The Journal of Economic History, 72(04), 927-955.
Knotz, C. M. (2012). Measuring the 'new balance of rights and responsibilities' in labor market policy: A quantitative overview of activation strategies in 20 OECD countries (ZeS-Working Paper 2012:06). Bremen: Zentrum für Sozialpolitik
Kuivalainen, S., Nelson, K. (2012). Eroding minimum income in the Nordic countries and abroad? Reassessing the typical character of Nordic social assistance. In Kvist, J., Fritzell, J., Hvinden, B., & Kangas, O (Eds.), Changing social equality - The Nordic welfare model in the 21st Century (pp. 69-89). Bristol: Policy Press.
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., & Höög, H. (2012). From universalism to selectivity: old wine in new bottles for child benefits in Europe and other countries. In Marx, I., & Nelson, K. (Eds.) Minimum income protection in Flux (pp.137-60). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., & Höög, H. (2012). The Fiscalization of Child Benefits in OECD Countries (GINI Discussion Paper No. 49: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS)). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., Palme, J., & Sjöberg, O. (2012). Sveriges socialförsäkringar i jämförande perspektiv. En institutionell analys av sjuk-, arbetsskade- och arbetslöshetsförsäkringarna i 18 OECD länder 1930 till 2010 (Swedish Social Insurance in Comparative Perspective. An Institutional Analysis of Sickness, Work Accident and Unemployment Insurance in 18 OECD countries 1930-2010). (Underlagsrapport nr. 10 till den parlamentariska socialförsäkringsutredningen (S 2010:04)). Stockholm: Social Ministry.
Marx, I., & van Rie, T. (2012). Growing inequalities’ impacts (GINI) Work package 6: Policy analysis. Intermediate Work Package 6 Report.
Nelson, K. (2012). Counteracting material deprivation: The role of social assistance in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(2), 148-163.
Nelson, K. (2012). Individuell ofärd, ojämlikhet och socialpolitik. Sverige i ett bredare europeiskt perspektiv (Individual well-being, equality and social policy. Sweden in European perspective). In Kön, klass och etnicitet. Jämlikhetsfrågor i socialförsäkringen (Sex, class and ethnicity: Questions of equality in social insurance) (pp. 43-58). Socialförsäkringsrapport 2012:4. Stockholm: Social Insurance Office.
Paetzold, J. (2012). The convergence of welfare state indicators in Europe: Evidence from panel data (Working Papers in Economics and Finance, No. 2012:04). Salzburg: University of Salzburg.
Pfeifer, M. (2012). Comparing unemployment protection and social assistance in 14 European countries. Four worlds of protection for people of working age. International Journal of Social welfare, 21(1), 13-25.
Schmitt, C., & Obinger, H. (2012). Policy diffusion and social rights in advanced democracies 1960-2000 (ZeS-Working Paper 2012:02). Bremen: Zentrum für Sozialpolitik

2011

Backhans, M. C., Burström, B., & Marklund, S. (2011). Gender policy developments and policy regimes in 22 OECD Countries, 1979-2008. International Journal of Health Services, 41(4), 595-623.
Bahle, T., Pfeifer, M., & Hubl, V. (2011). The last safety net: A handbook of minimum income protection in Europe. Bristol: Policy Press.
Billingsley, S., & Ferrarini, T. (2011). Family Policies and Fertility Intentions across New and Old Welfare Democracies (Working Paper 2011:10). The Linnaeus Center Social policy and family dynamics in Europe (SPaDE).
Bygren, M., Duvander, A.-Z. & Ferrarini, T. (2011). Moulding Parents’ Childcare?: A Comparative Analysis of Paid Work and Time with Children in Different Family Policy Models. In Drobnic, S., & Guillén, A., (Eds.), Work-Life Balance in Europe: The Role of Job Quality (pp. 207-230). Palgrave Macmillan.
Bäckman, O., & Bergmark, Å. (2011). Escaping welfare? Social assistance dynamics in Sweden. Journal of European social policy, 21(5), 486-500.
Bäckman, O., & Ferrarini, T. (2011). Att bekämpa barnfattigdom (To combat child poverty). In Alm, S, Bäckman, O. Gavanas, A., & Nilsson, A. (Eds.), Utanförskap (pp. 275-298). Stockholm: Dialogos.
Emmenegger, P. (2011). How good are your counterfactuals? Assessing quantitative macro-comparative welfare state research with qualitative criteria. Journal of European Social Policy, 21(4), 365-380.
Kuivalainen, S., & Nelson, K. (2011). Eroding minimum income protection in the Nordic countries? Reassessing the Nordic model of social assistance. In Kvist, J., Fritzell J., Hvinden, B., & Kangas, O. (Eds.), Changing social equality: The Nordic welfare model in the 21st century, (pp. 69-88). The Policy Press.
Nelson, K. (2011). Discussion Paper on Improving the efficiency of social protection. The Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion and Assessment in Social Inclusion. Brussels: European Commission.
Van Mechelen, N., Marchal, S., Goedemé, T., Marx, I., & Cantillon, B. (2011). The CSB-Minimum Income Protection Indicators dataset (CSB-MIPI) (CBS Working Paper 2011:05). Antwerp: Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy.
Wincott, D. (2011). Images of welfare in law and society: The British welfare state in comparative perspective. Journal of law and society, 38(3), 343-375.

2010

Bäckman, O., & Ferrarini, T. (2010). Combating child poverty? A multilevel assessment of family policy institutions and child poverty in 21 old and new welfare states. Journal of Social Policy, 39(2), 275-296.
Esser, I., & Ferrarini, T. (2010). Family Policy, Perceived Stress, and Work-Family Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Women in 20 Welfare States (Working Paper 2010:4). Stockholm: Institute for Future Studies.
Esser, I., & Palme, J. (2010). Do public pensions matter for health and wellbeing among retired persons? Basic and income security pensions across 13 Western European countries. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(s1), 103-120.
Ferrarini, T., & Norström, T. (2010). Family policy, economic development and infant mortality: a longitudinal comparative analysis. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(s1), 89-102.
Ferrarini, T., & Sjöberg, O. (2010). Social policy and health: transition countries in a comparative perspective. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(s1), 60-88.
Kangas, O. (2010). One hundred years of money, welfare and death: mortality, economic growth and the development of the welfare state in 17 OECD countries 1900–2000. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(s1), 42-59.
Korpi, W. (2010). Class and gender inequalities in different types of welfare states: The Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP). International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(s1), 14-24.
Kuivalainen, S. (2010). Kestääkö suomalainen vähimmäisturva pohjoismaisen vertailun? : vertaileva analyysi vähimmäisturvan tasosta ja sen köyhyyttä ehkäisevästä vaikutuksesta neljässä Pohjoismaassa 1990-2005. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka-YP 75 (2010): 4, 379-388.
Kuivalainen, S., & Nelson, K. (2010). The Nordic welfare model in a European perspective (Working Paper 2010:11). Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.
Montanari, I. & Nelson, K. (2010) Health Care Developments in EU Member States: Regressing Trends and Institutional Similarity? (Working Paper 2010:7). Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.
Nelson, K. (2010). Social assistance and minimum income benefits in old and new EU democracies. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(4), 367-378.
Norström, T., & Palme, J. (2010). Public pension institutions and old‐age mortality in a comparative perspective. International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(s1), 121-S130.
Sjöberg, O. (2010). Social insurance as a collective resource: unemployment benefits, job insecurity and subjective well-being in a comparative perspective. Social Forces, 88(3), 1281-1304.

2009

Bäckman, O. (2009). Institutions, structures and poverty—A comparative study of 16 countries, 1980–2000. European Sociological Review, 25(2), 251-264.
Esser, I. (2009). Has welfare made us lazy? Employment commitment in different welfare states. In A. Park. J. Curtice, K. Thomson, M. Phillips and E. Clery (eds.), British Social Attitudes: The 25th report (pp. 79-107). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Esser, I., Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., & Sjöberg, O. (2009). A framework for comparing social protection in developing and developed countries: The example of child benefits. International Social Security Review, 62(1), 91-115.
Ferrarini, T. (2009). Barnbidraget i internationellt perspektiv: De kontanta och skattebaserade barnbidragens utveckling och koppling till barnfattigdom i Sverige och andra välfärdsdemokratier 1930-2000 (Child allowances in comparative perspective: The development of cash and tax based family benefits and their link to child poverty in Sweden and other welfare democracies 1930–2000) (Working Papers in Social Insurance 2009:2). Stockholm: Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
Nelson, K. (2009). Minimum Income Protection and Low-Income Standards: Is Social Assistance Enough for Poverty Alleviation? (Working paper 2009:9). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research
Nelson, K. (2009). Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence (Luxemburg Income Study Working Paper No. 511). Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Studies.
Palme, J., Nelson, K., Sjöberg, K., & Minas, R. (2009). European Social Models, Protection and Inclusion (Research Report 2009:1). Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.

2008

Korpi, W., and Palme, J. (2008). “The Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP).” Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Lundberg, O., Yngwe, M. Å., Stjärne, M. K., Elstad, J. I., Ferrarini, T., Kangas, O., Norström, T., Palme, J., & Fritzell, J. (2008). The role of welfare state principles and generosity in social policy programmes for public health: an international comparative study. The Lancet, 372(9650), 1633-1640.
Montanari, I., Nelson, K., & Palme, J. (2008). Towards a European social model? Trends in social insurance among EU countries 1980–2000. European Societies, 10(5), 787-810.
Nelson, K. (2008). Adequacy of social minimums: workfare, gender and poverty alleviation in welfare democracies (Luxemburg Income Study Working Paper No. 474). Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Studies.
Nelson, K. (2008). Minimum income protection and European integration: Trends and levels of minimum benefits in comparative perspective, 1990-2005. International Journal of Health Services, 38(1), 103-124.
Scruggs, L., & Allan, J. P. (2008). Social stratification and welfare regimes for the twenty-first century. World Politics, 60(4), 642-64.
Sjöberg, O. (2008). Labour market mobility and workers’ skills in a comparative perspective: exploring the role of unemployment insurance benefits. International Journal of Social Welfare, 17(1), 74-83.

2007

Esser, I. & Ferrarini, T. (2007). Dubbla roller, dubbel stress? - familjepolitik, barn och stress i Sverige och andra välfärdsstater. In Halvvägs eller vilse? Om den nödvändiga balansen mellan föräldraskap och jobb (pp. 19-38). Premiss förlag, Stockholm.
Montanari, I., Nelson, K., & Palme, J. (2007). Convergence Pressures and Responses: Recent Social Insurance Development in Modern Welfare States. Comparative Sociology, 6, 295-323.
Nelson, K. (2007). Introducing SaMip: The Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Dataset (Working paper 2007:11). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.

2006

Carroll, E., & Palme, J. (2006). Inclusion of the European Nordic model in the debate concerning social protection reform: the long-term development of Nordic welfare systems (1890-2005) and their transferability to Latin America in the twenty-first century (CEPAL report no. 168). Santiago: United Nations Publications.
Ferrarini, T. (2006). Families, states and labour markets: institutions, causes and consequences of family policy in post-war welfare states. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Korpi, W. (2006). Power resources and employer-centered approaches in explanations of welfare states and varieties of capitalism: Protagonists, consenters, and antagonists. World Politics, 58(2), 167-206.
Lindh, T., & Palme, J. (2006). Sustainable Policies in an Ageing Europe. Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies, Research Report Series, Society and the Future, (3).
Palme, J. (2006). Welfare states and inequality: Institutional designs and distributive outcome. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 24(4), 387-403.

2005

Bäckman, O. (2005) Welfare States, Social Structure and the Dynamics of Poverty Rates. A Comparative Study of 16 Countries, 1980–2000 (Working Paper 2005:7). Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.
Esser, I. (2005). Why work? Comparative studies on welfare regimes and individuals' work orientations (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 64). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Esser, I. (2005). To Work or not to Work? Employment Commitment in 12 OECD countries. In Carroll, E., & Eriksson, L. (Ed) Welfare politics cross-examined: eclecticist analytical perspectives on Sweden and the developed world, from the 1880s to the 2000s (pp. 247-289). Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, International Institute for Social History.
Ferrarini, T. (2005). Betald föräldraledighet och kvinnors arbete (Paid parental leave and women’s employment). Ekonomisk Debatt 5, 63-71.
Ferrarini, T. (2005). Paid Parental Leave and Poverty: Analysing the Policy-Outcome Link among Families with Infants in Fifteen Western Countries . In Carroll, E., & Eriksson, L. (Ed) Welfare politics cross-examined: eclecticist analytical perspectives on Sweden and the developed world, from the 1880s to the 2000s (pp. 59-85). Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, International Institute for Social History
Ferrarini, T., & Forssén, K. (2005). Family Policy and Cross-national Patterns of Poverty. In Kangas, O., & J. Palme (Eds.) Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries (pp. 118-146). SERIES: Social Policy in a Development Context, General Editor: UNRISD. New York: Palgrave.
Nelson, K. (2005). The Last Resort: Determinants of the Generosity of Means-Tested Minimum Income Protection Policies in Welfare Democracies. In Carroll, E., & Eriksson, L. (Eds.) Welfare politics cross-examined: eclecticist analytical perspectives on Sweden and the developed world, from the 1880s to the 2000s (pp. 85-11). Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, International Institute for Social History.
Sjöberg, O. (2006). Financing ‘Big-Tax’ Welfare States: Sweden during crisis and recovery. In Kangas, O., & Palme, J. (Eds.), Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries, (pp. 241-264). Palgrave Macmillan.

2004

Kangas, O. (2004). Institutional Development of Sickness Cash‐benefit Programmes in 18 OECD Countries. Social Policy & Administration, 38(2), 190-203.
Korpi, W., & Palme, J. (2004). Robin Hood, St. Matthew, or simple egalitarianism? Strategies of equality in welfare states. In Kennett, P. (Ed.) A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy (pp. 153-179). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Nelson, K. (2004). The Last Resort: Determinants of Generosity of Means-tested Minimum Income Protection in Welfare Democracies (Compass Working Paper 2004:21).
Nelson, K. (2004). Mechanisms of poverty alleviation: anti-poverty effects of non-means-tested and means-tested benefits in five welfare states. Journal of European Social Policy, 14(4), 371-390.
Nelson, K. (2004). The Formation of Minimum Income Protection: The Institutional Development of Means-tested Benefits in Different Types of Welfare States, 1960-2000 (LIS Working Paper No. 373). Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Studies.

2003

Ferrarini, T. (2003). Familjepolitiken strukturerar fattigdomen (Family policy structures child poverty. In Barn i ekonomiskt utsatta familjer. Stockholm: Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.
Ferrarini, T. (2003). Parental leave institutions in eighteen post-war welfare states. (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 58). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Ferrarini, T. (2003). Föräldraledighet i välfärdsdemokratierna: nordisk modell ger mest. Välfärd (2:2003), pp 14-15. Stockholm: Statistics Sweden.
Ferrarini, T., & Nelson, K. (2003). Taxation of social insurance and redistribution: A comparative analysis of ten welfare states. Journal of European Social Policy, 13(1), 21-33.
Korpi, W. (2003). Welfare-state regress in Western Europe: politics, institutions, globalization, and Europeanization. Annual Review of Sociology, 29, 589-609.
Korpi, W., & Palme, J. (2003). New politics and class politics in the context of austerity and globalization: Welfare state regress in 18 countries, 1975–95. American Political Science Review, 97(03), 425-446.
Nelson, K. (2003). Fighting poverty: Comparative studies on social insurance, means-tested benefits and income redistribution (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 60). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.

2002

Carroll, E. (2002). The impacts and non-impacts of globalization on social policy: social insurance quality, institutions, trade exposure and deregulation in 18 OECD nations, 1965–1995. In Sigg, R., & Behrendt, C. (Eds.) Social Security in the Global Village (pp.117-139). New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Ferrarini, T., & Nelson, K. (2002). “Attivazione e Coordinamento. Il Caso Svedese”. L'Assistenza Sociale, Aprile-Giugno: 37-60.
Ferrarini, T., & Nelson, K. (2002). The Impact of Taxation on the Equalizing Effect of Social Insurance to Income Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of ten welfare states (LIS Working Paper Series No. 327). Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Studies.
Ferrarini, T., & Nelson, K. (2002). Estimating Post-tax Social Insurance Benefits: Validity Problems in Comparative Analyses of Net Income Components form Household Income Data (Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics 2002:6). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
Korpi, W. (2002). The great trough in unemployment: a long-term view of unemployment, inflation, strikes, and the profit/wage ratio. Politics & Society, 30(3), 365-426.

2001

Korpi, W. (2001). Contentious Institutions. An Augmented Rational-Action Analysis of the Origins and Path Dependency of Welfare State Institutions in the Western Countries. Rationality and society, 13(2), 235-283.
Korpi, W. (2001). Class, gender and inequality: the role of the welfare state. In Kohli, M. & Novak, M. (Eds.) Will Europe work?: integration, employment and the social order (pp. 52-72). London: Routledge.
Lindbom, A. (2001). Dismantling the social democratic welfare model? Has the Swedish welfare state lost its defining characteristics?. Scandinavian Political Studies, 24(3), 171-193.
Montanari, I. (2001). Modernization, globalization and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of old and new convergence of social insurance since 1930. The British journal of sociology, 52(3), 469-494.

2000

Kangas, O., & Palme, J. (2000). Does social policy matter? Poverty cycles in OECD countries. International Journal of Health Services, 30(2), 335-352.
Montanari, I. (2000). From family wage to marriage subsidy and child benefits: controversy and consensus in the development of family support. Journal of European Social Policy, 10(4), 307-333.
Montanari, I. (2000). Social citizenship and work in welfare states: comparative studies on convergence and on gender (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 45). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Sjöberg, O. (2000). Duties in the welfare state: working and paying for social rights (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 42). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Sjöberg, O. (2000). Unemployment and unemployment benefits in the OECD 1960-1990-An empirical test of neo-classical economic theory. Work, Employment & Society, 14(1), 51-76.

1999

Carroll, E. (1999). Emergence and structuring of social insurance institutions: comparative studies on social policy and unemployment insurance (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 38). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Hicks, A. (1999). Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Korpi, W., & Palme, J. (1999). Robin Hood, Matteus eller strikt likhet? En jämförande studie av välfärdsstatens institutioner och strategier för att minska ojämlikhet och fattigdom i västländerna. Sociologisk Forskning, 36(1), 53-92.
Montanari, I. (1999). Från familjestöd till hemmamakastöd och barnstöd: Ekonomiskt stöd till familjer 1950-1990 i 18 länder. Sociologisk forskning, 218-252.
Pedersen, A. W. (1999). The taming of inequality in retirement: a comparative study of pension policy outcomes (Doctoral dissertation. Fafo-report No. 317). Oslo: Fafo
Sjöberg, O. (1999). Paying for social rights. Journal of Social Policy, 28(2), 275-297.
1998
Korpi, W., & Palme, J. (1998). The paradox of redistribution and strategies of equality: Welfare state institutions, inequality, and poverty in the Western countries. American sociological review, 661-687.

1995

Korpi, W. (1995). The position of the elderly in the welfare state: Comparative perspectives on old-age care in Sweden. The Social Service Review, 242-273.
van Kersbergen, K. (1995). Social capitalism: A study of Christian democracy and the welfare state. London: Routledge.

1994

Wennemo, I. (1994). Sharing the costs of children: studies on the development of family support in the OECD countries. (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 25). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University

1993

Svallfors, S. (1993). Dimensions of inequality: A comparison of attitudes in Sweden and Britain. European Sociological Review, 9(3), 267-287.
Svallfors, Stefan (1993). Labourism vs Social Democracy? Attitudes to Inequality in Australia and Sweden (SPRC Reports and Proceedings no. 107). Kensington: Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales.
Wennemo, I. (1993). Infant mortality, public policy and inequality–a comparison of 18 industrialised countries 1950–85. Sociology of Health & Illness, 15(4), 429-446.

1992

Kangas, O. (1992). The politics of universalism: the case of Finnish sickness insurance. Journal of Social Policy, 21(01), 25-52.
Korpi, W. (1992). Welfare state development in Europe since 1930: Ireland in a comparative perspective. Dublin: Economic and Social Research Institute.
Väisänen, I. (1992). Conflict and consensus in social policy development. European Journal of Political Research, 22(3), 307-327.
Wennemo, I. (1992). The development of family policy. A comparison of family benefits and tax reductions for families in 18 OECD countries. Acta Sociologica, 35(3), 201-217.

1991

Kangas, O. (1991). The bigger the better? On the dimensions of welfare state development: Social expenditures versus social rights. Acta Sociologica, 34(1), 33-44.
Kangas, O. (1991). The politics of social rights: Studies on the dimensions of sickness insurance in OECD Countries (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 19). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Korpi, W. (1991). Political and Economic Explanations for Unemployment: A Cross-National and Long-Term Analysis. British Journal of Political Science, 21, 315-348.
Väisänen, I. (1991). Socialpolitikens utveckling i konflikt-och konsensusperspektiv; En jämförande studie av socialförsäkringar i 18 OECD-länder 1930—85. Sociologisk Forskning, 2, 3-26.
1990
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990). Three worlds of welfare capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Kangas, O., & Palme, J. (1990). The public-private mix in pension policy. International Journal of Sociology, 78-116.
Palme, J. (1990). Pension rights in welfare capitalism: the development of old-age pensions in 18 OECD countries 1930 to 1985 (Doctoral Dissertation Series, No. 14). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University

1989

Korpi, W. (1989). Power, politics, and state autonomy in the development of social citizenship: Social rights during sickness in eighteen OECD countries since 1930. American Sociological Review, 309328.
Olsson, S. E. (1989). Working-class power and the 1946 pension reform in Sweden. A modest festschrift contribution. International Review of Social History, 34(02), 287-308.

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