Wellbeing Returns on Social Investment Recalibration

Care at the Crossroads: How Policy Feedback Shaped Competing Feminist Advocacy for Parental Leave Reform in Spain

Author(s): Manuel Alvariño
Published in: Politics & Policy, Issue 53, 2025, ISSN 1555-5623
Publisher: Georgia Southern University
DOI: 10.1111/polp.70005

The influence of social investment on subjective capacity throughout the life course

Author(s): Annika Lehmus-Sun
Published in: Journal of European Social Policy, Issue 36, 2026, Page(s) 3-17, ISSN 0958-9287
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09589287251345892

Upgrading jobs for all: How welfare states shape differences in life satisfaction between the winners and losers of structural change

Author(s): Leon Küstermann
Published in: Socio-Economic Review, Issue 23, 2025, Page(s) 1895-1921, ISSN 1475-1461
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf029

Governing Europe's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Between Discipline and Discretion

Author(s): David Bokhorst; Francesco Corti
Published in: Government and Opposition, 2023, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1477-7053
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2023.14

Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers

Author(s): Manuel Alvariño, Milan Thies
Published in: Government and Opposition, 2024, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0017-257X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2024.25

Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story

Author(s): Heta Pöyliö, Patricia McMullin
Published in: European Sociological Review, 2024, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcae032

Bread or roses? Trade unions, female employment and the expansion of work-family policies

Author(s): Luca Michele Cigna
Published in: Journal of European Public Policy, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 1320-1345, ISSN 1350-1763
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2184414

Measuring returns on social investment beyond here-and-now redistribution: A commentary on Parolin and Van Lancker’s response article

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck, Ilze Plavgo
Published in: Journal of European Social Policy, Issue Volume: 31 issue: 3, 2021, Page(s) 309-320
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/09589287211018144

Social investment as a conceptual framework for analysing well-being returns and reforms in 21st century welfare states

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck, Stefano Ronchi, Ilze Plavgo
Published in: Socio-Economic Review, Issue 14751461, 2022, Page(s) 1–22, ISSN 1475-1461
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwac035

The Continental Social Investment Turn: Sequencing Corrective and Transformative Welfare State Change in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy

Author(s): Donato Di Carlo, Anton Hemerijck, Johannes Karremans
Published in: Politics & Society, Issue 53, 2025, Page(s) 29-56, ISSN 0032-3292
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00323292241252261

Stepping-stone solidarity: The normative foundation of the social investment welfare state

Author(s): Azizjon Bagadirov, Anton Hemerijck, Pablo Puertas Roig
Published in: Acta Sociologica, 2025, ISSN 0001-6993
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00016993251319682

Childbearing under different family policy schemes

Author(s): Sehar Ezdi, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Heta Pöyliö, Jani Erola
Published in: Journal of Family Research, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 305-326, ISSN 2699-2337
Publisher: JFR – Journal of Family Research (university of Bamberg)
DOI: 10.20377/jfr-987

Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Francesco Corti, Robin Huguenot-Noël
Published in: Journal of European Social Policy, Issue 34, 2025, Page(s) 237-252, ISSN 0958-9287
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09589287241240322

Partisan Politics and Feedback Effects: Comparing Defamilialization by Center-Right Parties across Six Familistic Countries

Author(s): Manuel Alvariño
Published in: Politics & Society, 2024, ISSN 0032-3292
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00323292241266390

From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy: Social Europe after the Recovery and Resilience Facility

Author(s): Francesco Corti; Patrik Vesan
Published in: Social Policy and Administration, Issue -, 2023, Page(s) -
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1111/spol.12906

Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation

Author(s): Ilze Plavgo
Published in: Social policy and administration, Issue Vol. 57, No. 2, 2023, Page(s) 235-253, ISSN 0144-5596
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/spol.12894

Towards a European Union of Social Investment Welfare States

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck
Published in: Intereconomics, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 233-239, ISSN 1613-964X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.2478/ie-2023-0049

How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe

Author(s): Ilze Plavgo
Published in: Regulation & Governance, Issue 20, 2026, Page(s) 635-651, ISSN 1748-5983
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/rego.70116

Managing constraint: frugal opposition to European fiscal solidarity

Author(s): David Bokhorst, Magnus G. Schoeller
Published in: Journal of European Public Policy, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 3275-3298, ISSN 1350-1763
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2332697

Social investment agenda setting : a personal note

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck
Published in: International Journal of Social Welfare, Issue 14682397, 2022, ISSN 1468-2397
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.12532

Social Investment Impact on Poverty: Empirical Evidence of the Stock, Flow and Buffer Policy Functions in Germany

Author(s): Heta Pöyliö
Published in: Social Policy and Society, 2026, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1474-7464
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746425101309

Policy complementarity or substitution? The joint employment effects of active labor market policy and early childhood education and care

Author(s): Ilze Plavgo, Brian Burgoon, Anton Hemerijck
Published in: Socio-Economic Review, Issue 24, 2026, Page(s) 1417-1450, ISSN 1475-1461
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwag021

Redefining influence: how a feminist advocacy group reformed paternity leave in Spain through insider women’s alliances

Author(s): Manuel Alvariño
Published in: Journal of Public Policy, Issue 46, 2026, Page(s) 288-310, ISSN 0143-814X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0143814x25100925

Social investment feedback effects in welfare politics: Evidence from work-family policy reforms

Author(s): Manuel Alvariño
Published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2026, ISSN 0958-9287
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09589287261499480

Governing the RRF: Drafting, Implementing, and Monitoring National Recovery and Resilience Plans as an Interactive Multi-Level Process (Policy Study published in June 2023)

Author(s): Jonathan Zeitlin, David Bokhorst, & Edgars Eihmanis
Published in: Foundation for European Progressive Studies; Policy Study; 2023/06, 2023, ISBN 9782931233146
Publisher: Foundation for European Progressive Studies; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Social Investment Returns over the Life Course

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck, Ilze Plavgo, Brian Burgoon, Daniel Alves Fernandes, Heta Pöyliö, Annika Lehmus-Sun
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4818282

"""Diversifying"" Social Investment: European Welfare States and Immigrant Integration in the Wake of the COVID-19 Crisis"

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck and Liam Patuzzi
Published in: 2021
Publisher: MPI -Migration Policy Institute

Europe’s Social Revival: From Gothenburg to Next Generation EU (SIEPS Policy Study)

Author(s): Bokhorst David, Schreurs Sven
Published in: 2023
Publisher: SIEPS

Family policy reforms dataset v1 (1980-2019)

Author(s): ALVARIÑO VÁZQUEZ, Manuel
Published in: 2026
Publisher: European University Institute

Europees Herstelfonds vraagt om flexibiliteit

Author(s): D. Bokhorst, J. Zeitlin and E. Eihmanis
Published in: 2024
Publisher: IPE -Economisch-Statistische Berichten

Europees Herstelfonds vraagt om flexibiliteit

Author(s): Bokhorst, D.; Zeitlin, J.; Eihmanis, E.
Published in: Economisch-Statistische Berichten, Issue 109 | 4833, 2024, Page(s) 229-231, ISSN 0013-0583
Publisher: Stichting Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB)

Investigating on the future of the welfare state

Author(s): Anton Hemerijck
Published in: EU Research magazine, Issue 2023 Winter issue, 2023, Page(s) 15-17, ISSN 2752-4736
Publisher: Blazon publishing

Unions matter : the new politics of welfare and social concertation

Author(s): CIGNA, Luca Michele
Published in: Issue 3, 2024
Publisher: European University Institute

Governing the Welfare Commons

Author(s): A. Hemerijck, D. Bokhorst
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/9780198971481.001.0001

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