- Zirra, Sascha. 2010. Domestic Europeanization – Institutional Entrepreneurs and Welfare State Change. Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe. REC-WP 09 / 10.
- Zirra, Sascha. 2010. The Bounded Creativity of Domestic Appropriation. Explaining Selective Flexicurity in Continental Countries.Les cahiers européen de Sciences Po N° 02/2010.
- Zirra, Sascha. 2008. The Europeanization of Labour Market Reforms. The role of domestic institutional entrepreneurs in adopting the European Employment Strategy. Paper Presented at the Cross-border influences in social policy. ESPAnet 2008 Conference. Helsinki, Finland, September 18–20, 2008.
- Zirra, Sascha und Jenny Buchkremer. 2008. Activation Reforms in Continental and Southern Europe. Impacts of the European Employment Strategy on Exclusive Employment Regimes in Germany, Italy and France. Paper presented at the International Conference, “Activation” policies on the fringes of society: a challenge for European welfare states. Organized by the “Institute for Employment Research (IAB)” and the “Political Sociology” Section of the German Sociological Association. May 15th-16th, 2008 in Nuremberg.
- Zirra, Sascha und Jenny Buchkremer. 2007. Die reflexive Modernisierung kontinental- und südeuropäischer Beschäftigungsordnungen. Die Auswirkungen des Flexicurity Paradigmas der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie in Deutschland, Italien und Frankreich. Paper presented at the Tagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung (SAMF e.V.). “Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialpolitik”. Kontroversen um Effizienz und Sicherheit. Berlin, 13./14. Dezember 2007
- Zirra, Sascha. 2007. Varieties of Continental Flexicurity. Impacts of the Flexicurity Paradigm and the European Employment Strategy on employment regimes in Germany, Italy and France. Paper presented at the ESPAnet Young Researchers Workshop ‘The European Social Model and Beyond’. December 6-8, 2007 University of Göttingen.
- Zirra, Sascha. 2007. Varieties of European Flexicurity. Impacts of the European Employment Strategy on domestic institutions in Germany, Italy and France. Paper presented at the Second joint Doctoral Workshop Development of Work and Welfare Reform in European Societies. ESPAnet and RECWOWE. October 5-6, 2007 University of Hamburg.
- Zirra, Sascha und Jenny Buchkremer, 2006: Transnationales Lernen in nationalen Feldern: Der begrenzte Erfolg der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie in Deutschland. Bamberger Beiträge zur Europaforschung und zur internationalen Politik Nr. 9/2006.
- Zirra, Sascha and Jenny Buchkremer. 2006. Learning within Fields: The Limited Success of the European Employment Strategy in Germany. Paper presented at the “Workshop concerning Options for the Applications of the ‘Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC)’ in European Spatial Development” 2nd September 2005. Bonn, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)