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Rosario Scandurra

Rosario Scandurra

Ramon y Cajal Researcher
Professor Ramón y Cajal

I am a quantitative sociologist of education examining the nexus of inequality, education, skills formation and labour market transitions. My work contributes to education and public policy debates on educational opportunities, youth transitions and education segregation. My research has examined educational and skills inequalities and how these inequalities are accumulated during the life course. Multiple questions emerged from this work concerning the complementary sequences of effects embedded in individual contexts of skills formation. Currently I am Ramón y Cajal Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona School of Management, a member of the Globalisation, Education and Social Policies...


  • Management, Law, Society & Humanities

  • Doctor, Social and Legal Sciences, Law and Public Management
  • Master of sociology

  • Professor Ramón y Cajal - UPF Barcelona School of Management
  • Faculty - UOC
  • Faculty - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Faculty - Universidad de Granada
  • PHD researcher - Universitat de Barcelona
  • Research team member - Centro de Investigación Sociologícas

Actividad Investigadora y transferencia

  • SCANDURRA, R., KELLY, D., FUSARO, S., CEFALO, R., HERMANNSSON, K. (2024). Do employability programmes in higher education improve skills and labour market outcomes? A systematic review of academic literature. Studies in Higher Education.
  • HERMANSONN, K., SCANDURRA, R., OTROS , O. (2024). Do skills enable the reduction of emissions from household energy use? Findings from a survey of households in rural India. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, Gran Bretaña.
  • SCANDURRA, R., CEFALO, R. (2024). Territorial Configurations of School-To-Work Outcomes in Europe. Politics and Governance.
  • REILLY, A., SCANDURRA, R. (2023). Language and employment in Ghana: capturing the multilingual reality. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
  • CEFALO, R., SCANDURRA, R. (2023). What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU? Journal of European Social Policy.
  • FUSARO, S., SCANDURRA, R. (2023). The impact of the European social fund on youth education and employment. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
  • SCANDURRA, R., ZANCAJO, A., BONAL SARRO, X. (2022). Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility. Population, Space and Place.
  • SCANDURRA, R., CEFALO, R., KAZEPOV, Y. (2021). School to work outcomes during the Great Recession, is the regional scale relevant for young people’s life chances? Journal of Youth Studies.
  • SCANDURRA, R., CEFALO, R., KAZEPOV, Y. (2021). Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions. Social Indicators Research.
  • BONAL SARRO, X., ZANCAJO, A., SCANDURRA, R. (2021). Student mobility and school segregation in an (un)controlled choice system: A counterfactual approach. British Educational Research Journal.
  • RAMBLA, X., SCANDURRA, R. (2021). Is the distribution of NEETs and early leavers from education and training converging across the regions of the European Union? European Societies.
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