Camilla Borgna
Biographic Data
| ID | 4207225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilla Borgna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Borgna |
| SIGNATURE | BORGNA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegio Carlo Alberto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6929-185X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Less prejudiced but still not intervening
Adolescents’ extensive use of online platforms makes them vulnerable to hate speech. As attitudes crystallize during adolescence, repeated exposure to online hate, even as bystanders, can undermine intergroup relations and generate lasting societal consequences. Little is known about strategies that effectively sensitize youth to online hate speech. We designed an educational intervention to shift adolescents’ affective attitudes and behavioral i…
Who’s the Surgeon? Cognitive Implications of Gendered Language
Psycholinguistic evidence shows that grammatical gender can shape mental representations, influencing how individuals interpret ambiguous scenarios. This study investigates whether varying the linguistic formulation of the “specialist riddle” affects the ability to recognize the surgeon as a woman. We tested four versions of the riddle on Italian high-school students (n = 691), manipulating the term used for “surgeon” to compare the masculine for…
Unpacking the relationship between child poverty rates and educational deprivation
This study examines the relationship between societal child poverty and students’ risk of educational deprivation and explores the underlying mechanisms. Analyzing PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2018 data from 32 countries, we find a positive association that persists even after controlling for individual-level compositional differences. Public education spending, which is negatively associated with child poverty, partly ex…
Aspirations as boundaries. Guidance practices and the reproduction of social inequality in free-choice tracking systems
Social disparities in educational decision-making are a well-known factor in the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. While existing research has emphasized differences in resources, expectations, and perceived risks, less attention has been paid to how interactions between families and schools shape these choices. This study examines the role of educational guidance practitioners in the reproduction of social inequality during the trans…
De-tracking at the margin
This paper estimates how marginal increases in the flexibility of between-school tracking affect student attainment by exploiting the addition of non-selective ‘comprehensive schools’ and hybrid ‘vocational high schools’ to Germany’s tracked school system. These schools opened up alternative pathways to the university-entrance certificate, which traditionally could only be obtained at academic-track schools. We use administrative records to compi…
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities
This article develops a comparative analysis of 'responsibility frames' of migrant integration - i.e. cognitive understandings about who should be responsible for migrant integration - held by actors involved in local integration governance across 36, rigorously selected, European small and medium towns and applies multilevel regression analysis to examine potential contextual and political drivers of the emergence of such frames. Our findings co…
An unstable equilibrium
The Italian immigrants' inclusion model has been described as a "low unemployment, bad jobs" equilibrium: immigrants have relatively high employment rates but tend to be segregated in low-quality jobs. However, as these jobs are also unstable, so is the equilibrium: during periods of recession, immigrants may face higher risks of labor-market exclusion. This paper investigates immigrant penalties in terms of employment probabilities, job loss, la…
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities
Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth
At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be ‘left behind’ to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-to-work transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts o…
Overeducation, Labour Market Dynamics, and Economic Downturn in Europe
Previous research on overeducation focused on labour market entrants and investigated the role of individual characteristics and, more recently, labour market and educational institutions. This article shifts the focus to primeage workers, exploring the relation between economic conditions, related labour market dynamics, and overeducation across 16 European countries in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. We regard cross-sectional overedu…
Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement
The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge: the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants. Looking at data from seventeen European nations, Camilla Borgna shows that mi…
Different systems, same inequalities? Post-compulsory education and young adults’ literacy in 18 OECD countries
Education is increasingly seen as a substitute for social policy, but opportunities for skill development vary by social background and educational institutions are not neutral in this respect. While previous research has extensively examined how schooling affects skills distribution, the role of post-compulsory education has been long overlooked. Using data from the 2011/2012 Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competences, this arti…
Pushed or pulled? Girls and boys facing early school leaving risk in Italy
Multiple paths to inequality. How institutional contexts shape the educational opportunities of second-generation immigrants in Europe
Most cross-country studies on educational systems aim at identifying the net effects of single institutional aspects on students’ outcomes. In this paper, I argue that educational systems are best conceived as configurations of interconnected elements. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic assessment of how selected features of the educational system and of the immigration context combine in countries where second-generation immigrants…
Migrant Achievement Penalties in Western Europe
This article presents a comparative examination of the educational underachievement of second-generation immigrants in Western Europe near the end of compulsory schooling, based on the 2006–2009 waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment survey. We propose a new measure of migrant educational penalty—revealing the relative position of immigrant students within the achievement distribution of natives with the same socio-economic b…
Migrant Achievement Penalties in Western Europe
This article presents a comparative examination of the educational underachievement of second-generation immigrants in Western Europe near the end of compulsory schooling, based on the 2006–2009 waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment survey. We propose a new measure of migrant educational penalty—revealing the relative position of immigrant students within the achievement distribution of natives with the same socio-economic b…
Different systems, same inequalities? Post-compulsory education and young adults’ literacy in 18 OECD countries
Education is increasingly seen as a substitute for social policy, but opportunities for skill development vary by social background and educational institutions are not neutral in this respect. While previous research has extensively examined how schooling affects skills distribution, the role of post-compulsory education has been long overlooked. Using data from the 2011/2012 Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competences, this arti…
Pushed or pulled? Girls and boys facing early school leaving risk in Italy
Multiple paths to inequality. How institutional contexts shape the educational opportunities of second-generation immigrants in Europe
Most cross-country studies on educational systems aim at identifying the net effects of single institutional aspects on students’ outcomes. In this paper, I argue that educational systems are best conceived as configurations of interconnected elements. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic assessment of how selected features of the educational system and of the immigration context combine in countries where second-generation immigrants…
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities
Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth
At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be ‘left behind’ to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-to-work transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts o…
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities
This article develops a comparative analysis of 'responsibility frames' of migrant integration - i.e. cognitive understandings about who should be responsible for migrant integration - held by actors involved in local integration governance across 36, rigorously selected, European small and medium towns and applies multilevel regression analysis to examine potential contextual and political drivers of the emergence of such frames. Our findings co…
Overeducation, Labour Market Dynamics, and Economic Downturn in Europe
Previous research on overeducation focused on labour market entrants and investigated the role of individual characteristics and, more recently, labour market and educational institutions. This article shifts the focus to primeage workers, exploring the relation between economic conditions, related labour market dynamics, and overeducation across 16 European countries in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. We regard cross-sectional overedu…
Migrant Achievement Penalties in Western Europe
This article presents a comparative examination of the educational underachievement of second-generation immigrants in Western Europe near the end of compulsory schooling, based on the 2006–2009 waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment survey. We propose a new measure of migrant educational penalty—revealing the relative position of immigrant students within the achievement distribution of natives with the same socio-economic b…
Multiple paths to inequality. How institutional contexts shape the educational opportunities of second-generation immigrants in Europe
Most cross-country studies on educational systems aim at identifying the net effects of single institutional aspects on students’ outcomes. In this paper, I argue that educational systems are best conceived as configurations of interconnected elements. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic assessment of how selected features of the educational system and of the immigration context combine in countries where second-generation immigrants…
Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement
The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge: the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants. Looking at data from seventeen European nations, Camilla Borgna shows that mi…
Different systems, same inequalities? Post-compulsory education and young adults’ literacy in 18 OECD countries
Education is increasingly seen as a substitute for social policy, but opportunities for skill development vary by social background and educational institutions are not neutral in this respect. While previous research has extensively examined how schooling affects skills distribution, the role of post-compulsory education has been long overlooked. Using data from the 2011/2012 Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competences, this arti…
Pushed or pulled? Girls and boys facing early school leaving risk in Italy
Overeducation, Labour Market Dynamics, and Economic Downturn in Europe
Previous research on overeducation focused on labour market entrants and investigated the role of individual characteristics and, more recently, labour market and educational institutions. This article shifts the focus to primeage workers, exploring the relation between economic conditions, related labour market dynamics, and overeducation across 16 European countries in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. We regard cross-sectional overedu…
Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth
At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be ‘left behind’ to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-to-work transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts o…
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities
An unstable equilibrium
The Italian immigrants' inclusion model has been described as a "low unemployment, bad jobs" equilibrium: immigrants have relatively high employment rates but tend to be segregated in low-quality jobs. However, as these jobs are also unstable, so is the equilibrium: during periods of recession, immigrants may face higher risks of labor-market exclusion. This paper investigates immigrant penalties in terms of employment probabilities, job loss, la…
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities
This article develops a comparative analysis of 'responsibility frames' of migrant integration - i.e. cognitive understandings about who should be responsible for migrant integration - held by actors involved in local integration governance across 36, rigorously selected, European small and medium towns and applies multilevel regression analysis to examine potential contextual and political drivers of the emergence of such frames. Our findings co…
De-tracking at the margin
This paper estimates how marginal increases in the flexibility of between-school tracking affect student attainment by exploiting the addition of non-selective ‘comprehensive schools’ and hybrid ‘vocational high schools’ to Germany’s tracked school system. These schools opened up alternative pathways to the university-entrance certificate, which traditionally could only be obtained at academic-track schools. We use administrative records to compi…
Less prejudiced but still not intervening
Adolescents’ extensive use of online platforms makes them vulnerable to hate speech. As attitudes crystallize during adolescence, repeated exposure to online hate, even as bystanders, can undermine intergroup relations and generate lasting societal consequences. Little is known about strategies that effectively sensitize youth to online hate speech. We designed an educational intervention to shift adolescents’ affective attitudes and behavioral i…
Who’s the Surgeon? Cognitive Implications of Gendered Language
Psycholinguistic evidence shows that grammatical gender can shape mental representations, influencing how individuals interpret ambiguous scenarios. This study investigates whether varying the linguistic formulation of the “specialist riddle” affects the ability to recognize the surgeon as a woman. We tested four versions of the riddle on Italian high-school students (n = 691), manipulating the term used for “surgeon” to compare the masculine for…
Unpacking the relationship between child poverty rates and educational deprivation
This study examines the relationship between societal child poverty and students’ risk of educational deprivation and explores the underlying mechanisms. Analyzing PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2018 data from 32 countries, we find a positive association that persists even after controlling for individual-level compositional differences. Public education spending, which is negatively associated with child poverty, partly ex…
Aspirations as boundaries. Guidance practices and the reproduction of social inequality in free-choice tracking systems
Social disparities in educational decision-making are a well-known factor in the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. While existing research has emphasized differences in resources, expectations, and perceived risks, less attention has been paid to how interactions between families and schools shape these choices. This study examines the role of educational guidance practitioners in the reproduction of social inequality during the trans…
Economics (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works) · Educational attainment (3 works)