Rosario Scandurra
Biographic Data
| ID | 247760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosario Scandurra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosario |
| FAMILY NAME | Scandurra |
| SIGNATURE | SCANDURRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1756-2694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Price of Prestige: Fees and Rankings in European Higher Education
University rankings powerfully shape strategy and policy, yet they say little about what students pay. This paper introduces a simple, replicable benchmark that juxtaposes posted undergraduate fees with rank positions for 112 European universities listed in both ARWU and THE WUR (2018). Using a combined rank indicator and descriptive comparisons, we show a pronounced decoupling: low‐fee institutions appear span the rank spectrum, whereas many hig…
Welfare Regimes, Subnational Territories and Dynamics of School‐To‐Work Transitions
Comparative research on school‐to‐work transitions (SWT) mainly focused on cross‐country differences, while territorial variations among sub‐national territories in youth labour market and transitions outcomes have been underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the impact over time of national institutional configurations and regional contextual traits on subnational school‐to‐work transitions outcomes, combining comparative welfare and SWT re…
Assessing the impact of the Youth Employment Initiative in European regions
Youth unemployment has been a primary concern for the European countries, especially after the 2008 Great Recession. In 2013 a Recommendation of the Council of the European Union established the Youth Guarantee (YG) as a political commitment to ensure that all young people receive a high-quality offer of employment, training or continued education within 4 months of becoming unemployed. To financially support the implementation of the YG in Europ…
Do skills enable the reduction of emissions from household energy use? Findings from a survey of households in rural India
We use new survey data from 1,203 households in rural Eastern India to estimate cross-sectional models of overall energy use and embedded emissions. Findings indicate that the primary driver of household energy use is household size and affluence. This is unsurprising and consistent with findings from the engineering literature on energy demand. However, there is also a substantial and significant moderating influence of skills on energy use. For…
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature
Territorial Configurations of School‐To‐Work Outcomes in Europe
Comparative research on school-to-work transitions mainly focused on country differences, examining the variation in institutional design and its impact on shaping youth labour market outcomes. The field has been dominated by a sort of methodological nationalism assuming nation states as homogeneous objects of comparison, while the territorial variations in youth transitions among sub-national territories have been less explored, notwithstanding …
What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU
Activation measures have assumed a prominent role within policy perspectives aimed at increasing labour market participation to support welfare sustainability. Most comparative studies on active labour market policies (ALMPs) have been conducted at the national level, although several scholars recently stressed the need to consider more carefully the territorial dimension of social policies. This article addresses this research gap by providing q…
Language and employment in Ghana: Capturing the multilingual reality
Research on economic activity in Africa consistently ignores the importance of individuals’ linguistic repertoires. We argue that an important contributing factor to the persistence of this lacuna is the lack of visibility of language in the social and economic data that is collected by governments through social surveys. We examine the specific case of language use at work in Ghana. Through this we aim to demonstrate the importance of improving …
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies
The challenges of integrating perspectives in looking at youth transitions to employmentIn contemporary societies, young people face strong uncertainties upon transitioning into the labour market.Transitions from education to employment have become reversible, unstable, following scarcely predictable yo-yo trajectories (Biggart and Walther, 2006).The opportunity structuresas contexts of possibilities and constraints affecting the expected outcome…
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China
Existing quantitative studies use various measurements and methods to examine Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction in the field of education. Yet, most studies either misunderstand the concepts involved or only test part of the theory. This article addresses these gaps by using the 'structure-disposition-practice' (SDP) framework to develop an integral model of cultural reproduction and it constructs a more precise measurement of habitus. I…
A Classification of Factors Affecting Adults’ Skills Distribution
This article explores cross-country patterns in how conditions relating to family background, education, and the labor market are related to literacy and numeracy skills. It seeks to assess whether these patterns are in agreement with models of skills formation as identified in the political economy literature. The novelty of this article resides in a reexamination of the findings in the literature of skills formation and education and training s…
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educational markets. This article analyses how the geography of educational opportunities, the socioeconomic background of students' f…
Is the distribution of Neets and early leavers from education and training converging across the regions of the European Union
Literature on education and training highlights two factors that impinge on the distribution of early leaving (ELET) and exclusion from employment and training (NEET) across EU regions. One of these factors lies in the institutions that regulate the transition from education and training to employment at the national level. Over time, these institutions have constituted a Universalistic regime in Scandinavia, an Employment-Centred regime in Centr…
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the school year 2016–2017 to observe the association between the socioeconomic characteristics of the s…
Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions
Territorial disparities in youth labour market chances in Europe
Comparative research on youth employment has mostly focused on differences between countries or regimes of youth transitions. The territorial differentiation below country level has been less explored, notwithstanding the potential impact on youth-life chances and the territorial cohesion of the European Union. This paper aims at deepening into the investigation of regional variations in patterns of youth labour market chances. To do this, we bui…
How adult skills are configured
School to work outcomes during the Great Recession, is the regional scale relevant for young people’s life chances
The debate on territorial cohesion and spatial inequality recognises the role and influence different scales have on individuals’ opportunities with extended effects especially for young people’s life chances. In particular, a regional perspective into territorial disparities of socio-economic conditions and welfare in Europe provides a more fine-grained view on the existence of territorially diverging income and labour market conditions for yout…
Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city’s neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona’s admissions policy, which combines catchment areas with high levels of school choice, generate specific mechan…
Will the regional concentration of tertiary education persist? The case of Europe in a period of rising participation
The economic impact of tertiary education is important for regional development, and whilst participation rates have increased, it is unclear whether this has benefited regions equally. The paper analyses a panel of European regions to determine how the geography of tertiary education has evolved between 2002 and 2012. The results show a mixed picture. Overall, the system is characterized by path dependency, with the past being the best predictor…
Modelling adult skills in OECD countries
Research in the social sciences has focused extensively on the relationship between family background, educational attainment and social destination, on the one hand, and on the processes of skills creation and skills use, on the other. This paper brings these two branches of the literature together by examining the correlation between a range of social factors. The methodology we adopt provides a comprehensive approach to the study of the channe…
Intergenerational money and time transfers by gender in Spain: Who are the actual dependents
The analysis of intergenerational transfers can shed light on the interaction between population age structure and welfare. Nevertheless, a thorough examination of this issue requires consideration of both monetary (market) and time (non-market) transfers
School to work outcomes during the Great Recession, is the regional scale relevant for young people’s life chances
The debate on territorial cohesion and spatial inequality recognises the role and influence different scales have on individuals’ opportunities with extended effects especially for young people’s life chances. In particular, a regional perspective into territorial disparities of socio-economic conditions and welfare in Europe provides a more fine-grained view on the existence of territorially diverging income and labour market conditions for yout…
Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city’s neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona’s admissions policy, which combines catchment areas with high levels of school choice, generate specific mechan…
Territorial disparities in youth labour market chances in Europe
Comparative research on youth employment has mostly focused on differences between countries or regimes of youth transitions. The territorial differentiation below country level has been less explored, notwithstanding the potential impact on youth-life chances and the territorial cohesion of the European Union. This paper aims at deepening into the investigation of regional variations in patterns of youth labour market chances. To do this, we bui…
Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the school year 2016–2017 to observe the association between the socioeconomic characteristics of the s…
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educational markets. This article analyses how the geography of educational opportunities, the socioeconomic background of students' f…
What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU
Activation measures have assumed a prominent role within policy perspectives aimed at increasing labour market participation to support welfare sustainability. Most comparative studies on active labour market policies (ALMPs) have been conducted at the national level, although several scholars recently stressed the need to consider more carefully the territorial dimension of social policies. This article addresses this research gap by providing q…
Is the distribution of Neets and early leavers from education and training converging across the regions of the European Union
Literature on education and training highlights two factors that impinge on the distribution of early leaving (ELET) and exclusion from employment and training (NEET) across EU regions. One of these factors lies in the institutions that regulate the transition from education and training to employment at the national level. Over time, these institutions have constituted a Universalistic regime in Scandinavia, an Employment-Centred regime in Centr…
Will the regional concentration of tertiary education persist? The case of Europe in a period of rising participation
The economic impact of tertiary education is important for regional development, and whilst participation rates have increased, it is unclear whether this has benefited regions equally. The paper analyses a panel of European regions to determine how the geography of tertiary education has evolved between 2002 and 2012. The results show a mixed picture. Overall, the system is characterized by path dependency, with the past being the best predictor…
Intergenerational money and time transfers by gender in Spain: Who are the actual dependents
The analysis of intergenerational transfers can shed light on the interaction between population age structure and welfare. Nevertheless, a thorough examination of this issue requires consideration of both monetary (market) and time (non-market) transfers
Territorial Configurations of School‐To‐Work Outcomes in Europe
Comparative research on school-to-work transitions mainly focused on country differences, examining the variation in institutional design and its impact on shaping youth labour market outcomes. The field has been dominated by a sort of methodological nationalism assuming nation states as homogeneous objects of comparison, while the territorial variations in youth transitions among sub-national territories have been less explored, notwithstanding …
Language and employment in Ghana: Capturing the multilingual reality
Research on economic activity in Africa consistently ignores the importance of individuals’ linguistic repertoires. We argue that an important contributing factor to the persistence of this lacuna is the lack of visibility of language in the social and economic data that is collected by governments through social surveys. We examine the specific case of language use at work in Ghana. Through this we aim to demonstrate the importance of improving …
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China
Existing quantitative studies use various measurements and methods to examine Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction in the field of education. Yet, most studies either misunderstand the concepts involved or only test part of the theory. This article addresses these gaps by using the 'structure-disposition-practice' (SDP) framework to develop an integral model of cultural reproduction and it constructs a more precise measurement of habitus. I…
Modelling adult skills in OECD countries
Research in the social sciences has focused extensively on the relationship between family background, educational attainment and social destination, on the one hand, and on the processes of skills creation and skills use, on the other. This paper brings these two branches of the literature together by examining the correlation between a range of social factors. The methodology we adopt provides a comprehensive approach to the study of the channe…
Assessing the impact of the Youth Employment Initiative in European regions
Youth unemployment has been a primary concern for the European countries, especially after the 2008 Great Recession. In 2013 a Recommendation of the Council of the European Union established the Youth Guarantee (YG) as a political commitment to ensure that all young people receive a high-quality offer of employment, training or continued education within 4 months of becoming unemployed. To financially support the implementation of the YG in Europ…
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies
The challenges of integrating perspectives in looking at youth transitions to employmentIn contemporary societies, young people face strong uncertainties upon transitioning into the labour market.Transitions from education to employment have become reversible, unstable, following scarcely predictable yo-yo trajectories (Biggart and Walther, 2006).The opportunity structuresas contexts of possibilities and constraints affecting the expected outcome…
Intergenerational money and time transfers by gender in Spain: Who are the actual dependents
The analysis of intergenerational transfers can shed light on the interaction between population age structure and welfare. Nevertheless, a thorough examination of this issue requires consideration of both monetary (market) and time (non-market) transfers
Modelling adult skills in OECD countries
Research in the social sciences has focused extensively on the relationship between family background, educational attainment and social destination, on the one hand, and on the processes of skills creation and skills use, on the other. This paper brings these two branches of the literature together by examining the correlation between a range of social factors. The methodology we adopt provides a comprehensive approach to the study of the channe…
Residential segregation and school segregation of foreign students in Barcelona
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city’s neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona’s admissions policy, which combines catchment areas with high levels of school choice, generate specific mechan…
Will the regional concentration of tertiary education persist? The case of Europe in a period of rising participation
The economic impact of tertiary education is important for regional development, and whilst participation rates have increased, it is unclear whether this has benefited regions equally. The paper analyses a panel of European regions to determine how the geography of tertiary education has evolved between 2002 and 2012. The results show a mixed picture. Overall, the system is characterized by path dependency, with the past being the best predictor…
How adult skills are configured
School to work outcomes during the Great Recession, is the regional scale relevant for young people’s life chances
The debate on territorial cohesion and spatial inequality recognises the role and influence different scales have on individuals’ opportunities with extended effects especially for young people’s life chances. In particular, a regional perspective into territorial disparities of socio-economic conditions and welfare in Europe provides a more fine-grained view on the existence of territorially diverging income and labour market conditions for yout…
A Classification of Factors Affecting Adults’ Skills Distribution
This article explores cross-country patterns in how conditions relating to family background, education, and the labor market are related to literacy and numeracy skills. It seeks to assess whether these patterns are in agreement with models of skills formation as identified in the political economy literature. The novelty of this article resides in a reexamination of the findings in the literature of skills formation and education and training s…
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of individuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educational markets. This article analyses how the geography of educational opportunities, the socioeconomic background of students' f…
Is the distribution of Neets and early leavers from education and training converging across the regions of the European Union
Literature on education and training highlights two factors that impinge on the distribution of early leaving (ELET) and exclusion from employment and training (NEET) across EU regions. One of these factors lies in the institutions that regulate the transition from education and training to employment at the national level. Over time, these institutions have constituted a Universalistic regime in Scandinavia, an Employment-Centred regime in Centr…
Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the school year 2016–2017 to observe the association between the socioeconomic characteristics of the s…
Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions
Territorial disparities in youth labour market chances in Europe
Comparative research on youth employment has mostly focused on differences between countries or regimes of youth transitions. The territorial differentiation below country level has been less explored, notwithstanding the potential impact on youth-life chances and the territorial cohesion of the European Union. This paper aims at deepening into the investigation of regional variations in patterns of youth labour market chances. To do this, we bui…
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies
The challenges of integrating perspectives in looking at youth transitions to employmentIn contemporary societies, young people face strong uncertainties upon transitioning into the labour market.Transitions from education to employment have become reversible, unstable, following scarcely predictable yo-yo trajectories (Biggart and Walther, 2006).The opportunity structuresas contexts of possibilities and constraints affecting the expected outcome…
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China
Existing quantitative studies use various measurements and methods to examine Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction in the field of education. Yet, most studies either misunderstand the concepts involved or only test part of the theory. This article addresses these gaps by using the 'structure-disposition-practice' (SDP) framework to develop an integral model of cultural reproduction and it constructs a more precise measurement of habitus. I…
What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU
Activation measures have assumed a prominent role within policy perspectives aimed at increasing labour market participation to support welfare sustainability. Most comparative studies on active labour market policies (ALMPs) have been conducted at the national level, although several scholars recently stressed the need to consider more carefully the territorial dimension of social policies. This article addresses this research gap by providing q…
Language and employment in Ghana: Capturing the multilingual reality
Research on economic activity in Africa consistently ignores the importance of individuals’ linguistic repertoires. We argue that an important contributing factor to the persistence of this lacuna is the lack of visibility of language in the social and economic data that is collected by governments through social surveys. We examine the specific case of language use at work in Ghana. Through this we aim to demonstrate the importance of improving …
Do skills enable the reduction of emissions from household energy use? Findings from a survey of households in rural India
We use new survey data from 1,203 households in rural Eastern India to estimate cross-sectional models of overall energy use and embedded emissions. Findings indicate that the primary driver of household energy use is household size and affluence. This is unsurprising and consistent with findings from the engineering literature on energy demand. However, there is also a substantial and significant moderating influence of skills on energy use. For…
Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature
Territorial Configurations of School‐To‐Work Outcomes in Europe
Comparative research on school-to-work transitions mainly focused on country differences, examining the variation in institutional design and its impact on shaping youth labour market outcomes. The field has been dominated by a sort of methodological nationalism assuming nation states as homogeneous objects of comparison, while the territorial variations in youth transitions among sub-national territories have been less explored, notwithstanding …
Assessing the impact of the Youth Employment Initiative in European regions
Youth unemployment has been a primary concern for the European countries, especially after the 2008 Great Recession. In 2013 a Recommendation of the Council of the European Union established the Youth Guarantee (YG) as a political commitment to ensure that all young people receive a high-quality offer of employment, training or continued education within 4 months of becoming unemployed. To financially support the implementation of the YG in Europ…
The Price of Prestige: Fees and Rankings in European Higher Education
University rankings powerfully shape strategy and policy, yet they say little about what students pay. This paper introduces a simple, replicable benchmark that juxtaposes posted undergraduate fees with rank positions for 112 European universities listed in both ARWU and THE WUR (2018). Using a combined rank indicator and descriptive comparisons, we show a pronounced decoupling: low‐fee institutions appear span the rank spectrum, whereas many hig…
Welfare Regimes, Subnational Territories and Dynamics of School‐To‐Work Transitions
Comparative research on school‐to‐work transitions (SWT) mainly focused on cross‐country differences, while territorial variations among sub‐national territories in youth labour market and transitions outcomes have been underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the impact over time of national institutional configurations and regional contextual traits on subnational school‐to‐work transitions outcomes, combining comparative welfare and SWT re…
Economics (17 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Regional Development and Policy (6 works)