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Blome, Frerk (2024): Mechanisms of Upward Social Mobility. A qualitative analysis of class-specific careers in law and educational science. In: C. Gross & S. Jaksztat (Hrsg.) (2024): Career Paths Inside and Outside Academia (=Soziale Welt. Special Edition 26), S. 372-406. DOI:10.5771/9783748925590-372

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"Hochschulen sind entscheidend für die (Re-)Produktion und Legitimation sozialer Ungleichheiten und wurden in diesem Zusammenhang vornehmlich mit Blick auf Studierende untersucht. Die Wissenschaftskarriere hingegen wurde vor dem Hintergrund klassenspezifischer Ungleichheiten bisher kaum erforscht. Die wenigen vorliegenden Studien verweisen auf eine Unterrepräsentation von weniger herkunftsprivilegierten Wissenschaftler:innen und konzentrieren sich in ihrer Erklärung auf die Reproduktion der Ungleichheiten. Dieser Beitrag hingegen bezieht sich auf die Erklärung sozialer Mobilität und stellt dafür mit der Theorie des sozialen Selbst eine interaktionistische Perspektive in den Mittelpunkt. Basierend auf einer vergleichenden Analyse von 27 autobiografisch-narrativen Interviews mit deutschen Rechts- und Erziehungswissenschaftler:innen unterschiedlicher sozialer Herkunft zeigt der Artikel zwei Mechanismen sozialer Aufstiegsmobilität auf. Erstens gewinnen die aufwärtsmobilen Wissenschaftlicher:innen durch positive Bewertungen ihrer studentischen wie akademischen Leistungen, und darauf basierenden sozialen Vergleichsprozesse, an Selbstvertrauen, wodurch sich ihre Selbstkonzepte verändern. Zweitens verändern auch soziale Beziehungen und Interaktionen mit autoritativen Anderen ihre Selbstkonzepte. Dabei sind diese beiden Mechanismen miteinander verwoben. So sind Leistungsindikatoren eng verbunden mit der Konstitution sozialer Beziehungen zu autoritativen Anderen sowie der positiven Bewertung und Förderung durch ebenjene. Die Ergebnisse des Aufsatzes tragen sowohl zur Ungleichheitsforschung im Hochschulbereich als auch zur Forschung über soziale Mobilität im Allgemeinen bei, indem sie vergleichende Einsichten in klassenspezifische Karrieremuster und Mechanismen sozialer Aufstiegsmobilität in der Wissenschaft bieten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Nomos)

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Schindler, Steffen, Eyal Bar-Haim, Carlo Barone, Jesper Fels Birkelund, Vikki Boliver, Queralt Capsada-Munsech, Jani Erola, Marta Facchini, Yariv Feniger, Laura Heiskala, Estelle Herbaut, Mathieu Ichou, Kristian Bernt Karlson, Corinna Kleinert, David Reimer, Claudia Traini, Moris Triventi & Louis-Andre Vallet (2024): Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison. In: International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Jg. 65, H. 1, S. 39-62. DOI:10.1177/00207152231151390

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"In this country-comparative study, we ask to what extent differentiation in secondary education accounts for the association between social origins and social destinations in adult age. We go beyond the widely applied formal definitions of educational tracking and particularly pay attention to country-specific approaches to educational differentiation. Our main expectation is that once we factor in these particularities, the degree to which educational differentiation accounts for social reproduction is quite similar across countries. Our analyses are based on national individual-level life-course data from six European countries that span from secondary education to occupational maturity. Our findings show that educational differentiation mediates the association between social origins and social destinations to a substantial degree in all countries. However, we still find some differences between countries in the extent to which educational differentiation accounts for social reproduction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Wimmer, Christopher (2024): Die Marginalisierten. (Über-) Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit. Weinheim: Juventa Verlag, 302 S.

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"Christopher Wimmer blickt nach »ganz unten«. Seine These trifft den Kern der deutschen Gegenwart: Ein - wenn nicht sogar das zentrale - Ergebnis kapitalistischer Vergesellschaftung besteht in der Marginalisierung von Menschen in sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Zusammenhängen. Wimmer zeigt, wie sich Marginalisierung konkret auswirkt. Er beschäftigt sich mit der Sozialisation der Marginalisierten und stellt daraufhin ihre Arbeitssituation, ihr Alltagsleben und ihre sozialen Beziehungen ins Zentrum. Überall dort zeigen sich Auswirkungen ihrer sozialen Position. Doch auch das Bewusstsein der Marginalisierten ist von ihrer Lage beeinflusst. All dies hat Folgen für eine Politik, die sich mit sozialer Marginalisierung auseinandersetzen will." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna, Morag Henderson & Nikki Shure (2023): The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates. In: Journal of Population Economics, Jg. 36, H. 3, S. 1395-1429. DOI:10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y

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"We examine how first-in-family (FiF) graduates — those whose parents do not have university degrees — fare in the labor market in England. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduates whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty. A decomposition of the wage difference between FiF and non-FiF graduates reveals two interesting findings. First, two-thirds of the female FiF penalty is explained by certain characteristics, including having lower educational attainment, not attending an elite university, selecting particular degree courses, working in smaller firms, working in jobs that do not require their degree, and motherhood. Second, FiF graduate men also differ in their endowments from non-FiF graduate men; however, FiF men earn higher returns on their endowments than non-FiF men and thus compensate for their relative social disadvantage, while FiF women do not. We also estimate the returns to graduation for potential FiF and non-FiF young people. We find that the wage returns to graduation are not lower among FiF graduates compared to those who match their parents with a degree." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Altmejd, Adam (2023): Inheritance of fields of study. (Working papers / Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy 2023,11), Uppsala, 60 S.

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"University graduates are more than three times as likely to hold a degree in the field that their parent graduated from. To estimate how much of this association is caused by the educational choices of parents, I exploit admission thresholds to university programs in a regression discontinuity design. I study individuals who applied to Swedish universities between 1977 and 1992 and evaluate how their enrollment in different fields of study increases the probability that their children later study the same topic. I find strong causal influence. At the aggregate level, children become 50% more likely to graduate from a field if their parent has previously enrolled in it. The effect is positive for most fields, but varies substantially in size. Technology, engineering, medicine, business exhibit the largest, significant, effects. For these fields, parental enrollment increases child graduation probability with between 2.0 and 12.8 percentage points. I show that the parent’s labor market experience plays an important role in explaining the results, but parental field enrollment does not increase subject-specific skills, nor is it associated with higher returns to earnings. I find little evidence for comparative advantage being the key driver of field inheritance. Rather, parents seem to function as role models, making their own field choice salient. This is indicated by the fact that children become less likely to follow parents with weak labor market prospects, and that children are more likely to follow the parent with the same gender." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Anna Cecilia, Rapp, Knutas Agneta & Eli Smeplass (2023): Bridging gaps in vocational education and training systems in Norway. In: Journal of vocational education and training online erschienen am 12.09.2023, S. 1-19. DOI:10.1080/13636820.2023.2255992

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"More than half of the youth in upper-secondary education in Norway choose programmes in vocational education and training. There is a larger risk of marginalisation in VET than in other educational programmes. One challenge facing VET is the mismatch between students' vocational education and the companies' need for apprenticeships. It is found that a great number of students lack apprenticeship after the second year in school, another matter of concern is the related risk of marginalisation connected to students' social backgrounds. We explore how a local vocational education and training (VET) system in Norway addresses the risk of marginalisation. With a focus on marginalisation and Luhmann's system theory lens, we understand that a local VET is divided into several more or less autopoietic subsystems which communicate different meanings regarding the risk of marginalisation. We investigate how marginalisation is addressed within different subsystems in VET, by using a case study that includes interviews with important stakeholders at an upper-secondary school, a training agency, and companies. The results from the case study reveal that different rationalities may lead to difficulties in constructing integration between education and the labour market. However, through communication, ideas can be translated and overbridge system differentiation and mutual communication regarding how marginalisation can be decreased." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bagheri, Rojin & Brigitte Schels (2023): Soziale Unterschiede in der Lehrer_innenempfehlung und deren Bedeutung für den weiteren Bildungsweg nach der NMS. In: J. Flecker, B. Schels & V. Wöhrer (Hrsg.) (2023): Junge Menschen gehen ihren Weg, Göttingen, V&R unipress S. 129-149, 2022-07-01.

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"Im Fokus dieses Beitrags steht die zentrale Rolle der Lehrer_innenempfehlung für die Entscheidung der Jugendlichen, nach der NMS eine maturaführende Schule zu besuchen. Obwohl die Empfehlung der Lehrer_innen keine notwendige Voraussetzung ist, kann die (fehlende) Ermutigung zu sozialer Ungleichheit beitragen. Unsere Befunde zeigen, dass Schüler:innen mit einer besseren Kapitalausstattung in der Familie bei sonst gleichen Schulleistungen eher von den Lehrer_Innen ermutigt werden, nach Abschluss der NMS auf eine weiterführende Schule zu gehen.... Das besondere der vorliegenden Studie ist, dass sie die Perspektive der Schüler_innen einnimmt und über eine Befragung ihre Sicht ins Zentrum ihrer Analyse stellt (Jünger 2008)." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Berloffa, Gabriella, Eleonora Matteazzi, Alina Şandor & Paola Villa (2023): Mothers' and daughters' employment in Europe. A comparative analysis. In: Socio-economic review, Jg. 21, H. 2, S. 767-793. DOI:10.1093/ser/mwac046

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"This article analyzes the intergenerational correlation of employment between young women (at about 30 years of age) and their mothers (when their daughters were about 14 years old), using 2011 European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions data. It examines the extent to which this correlation varies across 19 European countries and is associated with the socioeconomic context at the national level. Having grown up with a working mother is associated with a sizeable increase in the daughters’ employment probability in almost all countries, with greater effect for women with children. For this group, the intergenerational correlation is smaller in countries where the policy context is less favorable to maternal employment. It is crucial to promote gender equality, challenging individuals’ gender stereotypes through education and in society at large, and create conditions that allow young women’s preferences for work to be realized, enhancing policies that favor a balanced sharing of unpaid work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Blossfeld, Pia Nicoletta (2023): How do macro- and micro-level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes? In: Sociology Compass, Jg. 17, H. 2, S. e13042. DOI:10.1111/soc4.13042

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"This article uses data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) to examine how the composition of tertiary degree holders by social origin has changed across cohorts during a period of massive educational expansion. It also investigates how changes in the composition of social origins affect the proportion of downward mobility of children from academic families. The results of the empirical analysis reveal a surprising paradox: On the one hand, the rising share of children from academic families across cohorts has contributed to an increasing share of children from academic families among tertiary graduates. This is because of both the macro-level proportion of children from academic families and the micro-level probability of these children to obtain a tertiary degree have increased across cohorts. Thus, these macro-level and micro-level changes have reinforced each other. On the other hand, this change in the composition of social origin has also contributed to an increasing proportion of children from academic families who are downward mobile in successive cohorts. This is because the macro-level share of children from academic families has increased more across cohorts than their downward mobility risk has decreased at the micro level. Thus, macro-level changes were stronger and went in opposite direction to micro-level changes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Born, Anthony Miro (2023): The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood. In: Urban studies, Jg. 60, H. 3, S. 537-553. DOI:10.1177/00420980221106340

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"In recent years, a burgeoning number of studies have shed light on the lived experience of territorial stigma. However, the vibrant academic discourse on the stigma of place focuses almost exclusively on residents living in marginalised neighbourhoods: it either overlooks or simplifies the lived experience of ‘moving out’ and ‘up’. Building upon 43 biographical interviews with individuals who experienced upward social mobility and were raised in stigmatised neighbourhoods in Germany, this article argues that the experience of exiting from the symbolic bottom of the urban structure is a more complex and conflictual one. In particular, this work sheds light on how former residents learn to relate to the symbolic baggage of having once lived in a notorious neighbourhood. By analysing the three prevailing coping strategies they engage in, the article shifts attention to the prolonged and lasting impact of territorial stigmatisation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bruin, Marieke, Vidmantas Tutlys, Meril Ümarik, Krista Loogma, Lina Kaminskiené, Inna Bentsalo, Terje Väljataga, Biruta Sloka & Ilze Buligina (2023): Participation and learning in Vocational education and training - a cross-national analysis of the perspectives of youth at risk for social exclusion. In: Journal of vocational education and training online erschienen am 24.11.2023, S. 1-22. 1-22. DOI:10.1080/13636820.2023.2283745

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"The article explores the experiences of youth at risk for social exclusion and is part of cross-national research involving Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. 79 young people aged 16-29 who are at risk of becoming economically and socially marginalized were interviewed about circumstances that may support or hinder their participation and learning in VET. The study draws on sociocultural theory, emphasizing learning as participation in social practices. Thematic analyzes indicate that negative experiences in the past affect current participation in VET. In all countries, VET offers opportunities for participation for students at risk of social exclusion. However, vulnerable youth do not navigate the paths of social engagement well on their own. In the case of VET-students at risk for social exclusion, the mere development of knowledge and skills relevant for employment in the labor market does not suffice. VET institutions will need to facilitate students participation in learning communities. Building social capital for youth at risk through developing relationships that generate motivation, trust, and confidence enhances students opportunities for participation and subsequent learning. VET teachers and workplace supervisors will need guidance on how to develop the pedagogical competencies necessary to nurture social capital for students at risk for social exclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Buscha, Franz, Emma Gorman & Patrick Sturgis (2023): Selective schooling and social mobility in England. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 81. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102336

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"We assess whether changing from an academically selective to a comprehensive schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in England declined sharply and differentially by area. Using a sample of census records matched to data on selective schooling, we exploit temporal and geographic variation in the proportion of pupils attending selective schools to estimate the effects of schooling system on intergenerational social mobility. Our results provide no support for the contention that the move from selective to comprehensive schooling had a notable effect on social mobility in England. The findings are robust to a battery of sensitivity and robustness checks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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Bussolo, Maurizio, Daniele Checchi & Vito Peragine (2023): Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter. In: Journal of Economic Inequality, Jg. 21, H. 2, S. 277-323. DOI:10.1007/s10888-022-09562-6

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"Inequality of opportunity (IOp) in the four largest economies in Europe – France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom – around 2015 accounts for a significant share of inequality of incomes, between 30 and 50 percent, depending on the inequality index and using a parametric approach. Mirroring the reduction of inequality of incomes over the last three decades, the long-term trend of IOp, the focus of this paper, has been declining for all countries but Italy. Declining trends are also observed for IOp estimated for age, gender, and birth cohorts sub-groups of the national populations. The closing of the gender gap accounts for a large share of the reduction of the IOp of the overall population. When decomposing age and birth cohort effects, the age effect of IOp exhibits an inverted U shape and, at the same age, IOp experienced by most recent cohorts is lower than preceding ones. To guide the interpretation of the observed declining trends, we use a theoretical framework describing the mechanisms through which changes in circumstances may be correlated to changes of inequality of opportunity. Three variables are considered by this framework: a) intergenerational persistence in educational attainment, b) return of education, and c) social origins. The first two variables are declining in all countries and are consistent with the reduction of IOp. However, 'higher' social origins seem to become increasingly more correlated with higher (labor) incomes and, in some countries (notably Italy), increasing relevance of this third variable slows down the overall reduction of IOp. Social origins, proxied by educated parents, remain significant even after controlling for parental resources (books at home when aged 14) or children' skills (numeracy and literacy)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Bürmann, Marvin (2023): The importance of intergenerational stability for the social origins of undereducation and overeducation. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 84. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100783

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"Only recently have sociologists begun to examine the social origins of educational mismatches in more detail. This research not only repeatedly found, but also investigated why individuals from lower social origin more often have a higher level of education than required for their job (overeducation), and why individuals from a higher social origin more often realize high positions despite having a lower level of education than required for their job (undereducation). While these studies provide additional and valuable empirical insights into the effect of social origin on both types of mismatch separately, to date there has been no investigation on general sociological meaningful conditions, under which the social origin unfolds an effect on undereducation and overeducation in the first place. This paper addresses this gap by examining the relevance of intergenerational stability for the effect of social origin on mismatches. It does so by drawing on arguments from sociological theories on intergenerational (im-)mobility, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1990–2017, and two different measurement methods for educational mismatches. The empirical results show evidence of substantial heterogeneity in the effect of social origin on educational mismatches: A higher parental status is found to be advantageous only for employees with intergenerational stability in social classes and/or occupational tasks. This indicates that the intergenerational transmission of class-specific traits and occupational skills contribute to the effect of social origin on mismatches. The results show no effect of parental status on educational mismatches among employees who are intergenerationally mobile and make up half of the German labor force under investigation. Since this heterogeneity is also found among workers who immigrated to Germany as adults, parental networks within Germany and the corresponding social capital can be ruled out as the main driver behind this finding. Although educational attainment is the most important pathway of intergenerational status maintenance, the results suggest that educational mismatches offer a means of identifying systematic deviations from this pathway. Individuals who follow in the footsteps of their high-status parents are more likely to be employed either at or above their level of education. In the light of the strong heterogeneity revealed, complementary explanations and routes for further research to investigate the link between intergenerational (im-)mobility, social origin and educational mismatches are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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Christoph, Bernhard, Alexander Patzina & Carina Toussaint (2023): Soziale Ungleichheit in den Bildungsentscheidungen nach dem Abitur: Kinder von Eltern ohne Hochschulabschluss nehmen eher ein duales Studium auf. (IAB-Kurzbericht 15/2023), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2315

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"Das duale Studium wird in der deutschen Hochschullandschaft immer wichtiger. Es wird untersucht, wer ein duales Studium aufnimmt und inwieweit der Bildungshintergrund der betroffenen Jugendlichen eine Rolle bei der Entscheidung für ein duales Studium spielt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Eckstein, Zvi, Michael P. Keane & Osnat Lifshitz (2023): What Explains the Growing Gender Education Gap? The Effects of Parental Background, the Labor Market and the Marriage Market on College Attainment. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16612), Bonn, 58 S.

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"In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over cohorts, our model explains differences in all endogenous variables by gender/ethnicity for the '60-'80 cohorts based on three exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage offers at older ages has increased, enabling them to defer marriage. The labor market is the largest factor: Improvement in women's labor market return to college in recent cohorts accounts for 50% of the increase in their graduation rate. But the labor market returns to college are still greater for men. Women go to college more because their overall return is greater, after factoring in marriage market returns and their greater utility from college attendance. We predict the recent large increases in women's graduation rates will cause their children's graduation rates to increase further. But growth in the aggregate graduation rate will slow substantially, due to significant increases in the share of Hispanics – a group with a low graduation rate – in recent birth cohorts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Ehrmann, Thomas & Aloys Prinz (2023): Soziale Herkunft: Durch Bildung zu beruflichem (Top-)Erfolg? In: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Jg. 52, H. 5, S. 4-9. DOI:10.15358/0340-1650-2023-5-4

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"Unter Nutzung des Skill-Paradoxons zeigen wir, dass durch die Ausweitung der universitären Ausbildung auf Nichttarget-Universitäten und steigende Ausbildungsqualität dieser Universitäten die Chancen von Bewerbern mit sozial schwächerer Herkunft bei der Besetzung von Spitzenpositionen in Unternehmen nicht notwendigerweise verbessert werden; sie können sich möglicherweise sogar verschlechtern. Diese Hypothese wird mit kostentheoretischen Überlegungen zur Personalauswahl unterstützt. Daran anschließend werden empirische Ergebnisse für das Investmentbanking in Großbritannien präsentiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Verlag Franz Vahlen )

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Falk, Armin, Fabian Kosse & Lasse S. Stötzer (2023): Sozioökonomischer Status, Mentoring und Chancengerechtigkeit. Thünen-Vorlesung 2022. In: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Jg. 24, H. 2, S. 264-275. DOI:10.1515/pwp-2023-0020

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"Dieser Beitrag, der die Thünen-Vorlesung von Armin Falk auf der Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik widerspiegelt, ist der sozialen Ungleichheit und Chancengerechtigkeit in Deutschland gewidmet. Die empirischen Erkenntnisse der Forschung von Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse und Lasse S. Stötzer belegen zum einen eine erhebliche Gerechtigkeitslücke, da Kinder aus sozial schwächeren Verhältnissen auf multiple Weise in ihren Startchancen benachteiligt sind. Zum anderen zeigt sich aber, dass diese Lücken keinesfalls hingenommen werden müssen: Durch geeignete Interventionen, insbesondere Mentoringprogramme, können sie stark reduziert werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Friedrich, Teresa Sophie & Astrid Schütz (2023): Predicting School Grades: Can Conscientiousness Compensate for Intelligence? In: Journal of Intelligence, Jg. 11, H. 7 16 S., 2023-07-17. DOI:10.3390/jintelligence11070146

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"Intelligence and noncognitive factors such as conscientiousness are strongly related to academic performance. As theory and research differ with respect to their interplay in predicting performance, the present study examines whether conscientiousness compensates for intelligence or enhances the effect of intelligence on performance in 3775 13th grade students from Germany. Latent moderation analyses show positive main effects of intelligence and conscientiousness on grades. Further, analyses reveal synergistic interactions in predicting grades in biology, mathematics, and German, but no interaction in predicting grades in English. Intelligence and grades are more strongly linked if students are conscientious. Multigroup models detected gender differences in biology, but no differences with respect to SES. In biology, conscientiousness has especially strong effects in intelligent men. Conscientiousness thus enhances the effect of intelligence on performance in several subjects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MDPI) ((en))

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García-Peñalosa, Cecilia, Fabien Petit & Tanguy van Ypersele (2023): Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 84. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102390

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"The increase in employment polarization observed in several high-income economies has coincided with a reduction in inter-generational mobility. This paper argues that the disappearance of middling jobs can drive changes in mobility, notably by removing a stepping stone towards high-paying occupations for those from less well-off family backgrounds. Using data from two British cohorts who entered the labour market at two points in time with very different degrees of employment polarization, we examine how parental income affects both entry occupations and occupational upgrading over careers. We find that transitions across occupations are key to mobility and that the impact of parental income has grown over time. At regional level, using a shift-share IV-strategy, we show that the impact of parental income has increased the most in regions experiencing the greatest increase in polarisation. This indicates that the disappearance of middling jobs played a role in the observed decline in mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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Gresch, Cornelia, Lars Hoffmann & Georg Lorenz (2023): Zusammenhänge zwischen nachbarschaftlicher Wohnumgebung und schulischem Bildungserfolg. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 75, H. 1, S. 37-61. DOI:10.1007/s11577-023-00880-9

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"Ob Merkmale der nachbarschaftlichen Wohnumgebung den schulischen Bildungserfolg beeinflussen, wurde in Deutschland bislang kaum untersucht. Epidemische Theorieansätze lassen erwarten, dass Effekte der Wohnumgebung nicht linear sind, sondern erst ab bestimmten Schwellenwerten auftreten. Der Artikel untersucht den Beitrag der Sozialstruktur der Wohnumgebung zur statistischen Erklärung schulischer Kompetenzen. Dabei wird im Gegensatz zu bereits vorliegenden Arbeiten die Konfundierung von Nachbarschaftsmerkmalen mit individuellen, familiären und schulischen Merkmalen berücksichtigt. Als Datengrundlage dienen die querschnittlichen IQB-Bildungstrendstudien 2015 (N = 1467, 9. Klassenstufe) und 2016 (N = 1546, 4. Klassenstufe), die an sozialräumliche Daten des Statistischen Landesamts Bremen gekoppelt werden. Mehrebenenmodelle weisen auf einen Zusammenhang zwischen der sozialen Zusammensetzung der Nachbarschaft und den schulischen Kompetenzen von Heranwachsenden hin, der weitgehend auf die Konfundierung mit individuellen, familiären und schulischen Merkmalen zurückgeführt werden kann. Die Zusammenhänge sind linear und die Effektstärken fallen für beide Jahrgangsstufen ähnlich klein aus. Die Ergebnisse werden mit Blick auf die Folgen sozialräumlicher Segregation für Bildungsungleichheit diskutiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag)

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Homuth, Christoph & Felix Bittmann (2023): Less learned but still good grades (for some). What impact had school closures on social inequality of educational opportunity? In: Soziale Welt, Jg. 74, H. 1, S. 14-39. DOI:10.5771/0038-6073-2023-1-14

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"In mehreren Studien wurde versucht, die Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf das Lernen der Schüler und die Lernunterschiede zwischen sozialen Gruppen abzuschätzen. Nur wenige Studien haben sich mit den Auswirkungen auf Schulnoten als weiteren zentralen Indikator von Schulleistungen befasst. Institutionell sind Noten für die Bewertung der Fähigkeiten von Schüler:innen, für Bildungsübergänge, für den Schulabschluss und als Signal für den Arbeitsmarkt von wesentlicher Bedeutung. Noten sind jedoch von vielen nicht leistungsbezogenen Faktoren abhängig, wie z. B. dem Geschlecht oder der sozialen Herkunft. Auf der Grundlage früherer Studienergebnisse und theoretischer Argumente erwarteten wir, dass die Noten während der Schulschließungen weniger mit kognitiven Kompetenzen und stärker mit der sozialen Herkunft korrelieren würden als in vorangegangen Schuljahren. Wir analysierten die Auswirkungen der Pandemie auf die Noten in Mathematik und Deutsch am Ende der achten Klasse. Die Pandemie kann als natürliches Experiment betrachtet werden, was bei der Analyse von zwei Kohorten des Nationalen Bildungspanels genutzt werden kann: Die Noten der jüngeren Kohorte (n = 4.069 Schüler:innen), die während der Pandemie (2020) die achte Klasse besuchten, wurden verglichen mit den Noten der älteren Kohorte (n = 6.861 Schüler:innen in 2014). Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen keine systematische Zunahme der Bildungsungleichheit aufgrund der sozialen Herkunft der Schüler:innen. Allerdings berichteten die Schüler:innen nach der Schulschließungsphase bessere Noten als Schüler:innen der Vergleichsgruppe. Eine Erklärung dafür könnte pro-soziale Benotung durch die Lehrkräfte sein." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Hudde, Ansgar & Henriette Engelhardt (2023): Family inequality: On the changing educational gradient of family patterns in Western Germany. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 48, S. 549-590. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.20

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"Objective: A comprehensive and thorough investigation of the key trends in family patterns in Western Germany. Methods: Descriptive analyses of educational differences in marital status, cohabitation, partnerlessness, and children in the household in Western Germany from 1976 to 2019. We analyze unique data from the German Microcensus with information from more than 1.7 million individuals. Results: In the 1970s, men with higher education were moderately more likely to live with a partner and be married, and less likely to be divorced. The reverse was mainly the case for women. Over time, higher education levels for men and women became increasingly associated with living with a partner, being married, and living with children; lower levels of education became increasingly associated with divorce, partnerlessness, and single parenthood. Today, men with lower levels of education are least likely to live with a partner, be married, or have children in the household. Women with lower education levels are most likely to be single parents. Conclusions: Education is turning more and more into a generalized life resource: those with higher education are not only the winners in the labor market but are also increasingly more likely to achieve those partnership and family outcomes to which the majority of young people aspire – a stable partnership and children. Contribution: This 'big picture' analysis deepens our understanding of changes in family-related social inequalities in Germany. Analyses based on high-quality data have not been available for Germany and can serve as bases for future research at the granular level." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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Hörisch, Felix & Julia Weiss (2023): Intergenerational transmission or local labor market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions. In: International Journal of Social Welfare online erschienen am 06.10.2023, S. 1-20. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12634

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"This article analyzes the driving factors behind the formation of individual work values in European welfare states. By comparing relative preferences for extrinsic and intrinsic work values, we shed light on the discussion of the effects of intergenerational transmission and the structuring effects of labor market policies and regional opportunity structures on the formation of work values. Therefore, a multilevel analysis is applied using the innovative CUPESSE data set, which provides data on young adults and their parents in 65 NUTS‐1‐regions from 11 European countries. The results show that individual work values of young Europeans are most substantively shaped by the respective values of their parents. Furthermore, we demonstrate that individual characteristics such as sex, education and personal unemployment experiences determine preferences for work values. Finally, the paper shows that the local labor market context and welfare state arrangements also play a decisive role in the formation of individual work values." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Karlson, Kristian Bernt & Jesper Fels Birkelund (2023): Origins of attainment: do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap? In: European Sociological Review online erschienen am 26.05.2023, S. 1-11. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcad030

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"We study the overlap in the overall impact of family background on two widely studied labour market outcomes by considering whether brother similarities in occupational status are rooted in the same underlying family characteristics that affect brother similarities in income. We extend previous research using sibling correlations as an omnibus measure of total family background impact on a given outcome by directly quantifying how brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap. We apply a novel variance components model to data from Denmark and the United States, two countries known to follow a contradictory pattern: While income mobility is much lower in the United States, occupational mobility is virtually similar. Apart from confirming this pattern, we find a substantial overlap, around 70 per cent, in brother similarities in income and occupational status in both countries. Conventional family background variables account for less than one-fifth of this overlap in each country, suggesting that shared family origins of attainment in these two domains are constituted by largely unknown family characteristics. We speculate what these characteristics might be." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Keitel, Christiane, Alexander Patzina, Carina Toussaint & Bernhard Christoph; Alexander Patzina, Carina Toussaint & Bernhard Christoph (sonst. bet. Pers.) (2023): Das duale Studium spricht eher Bildungsaufsteiger an (Interview mit Bernhard Christoph, Carina Toussaint und Alexander Patzina). In: IAB-Forum H. 09.08.2023 Nürnberg, 2023-08-08. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20230809.01

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"Das duale Studium hat in Deutschland erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen: Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat sich die Zahl der dual Studierenden nahezu verdreifacht. Doch wer genau nimmt ein duales Studium auf und welche Rolle spielt der Bildungshintergrund bei dieser Entscheidung? Diesen Fragen gehen Bernhard Christoph, Alexander Patzina und Carina Toussaint im IAB-Kurzbericht 15/2023 nach. Sie haben auch der Redaktion des IAB-Forum dazu Rede und Antwort gestanden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Kracke, Nancy & Sören Isleib (2023): Wie geht es für wen weiter? Verläufe der bildungs- und berufsbezogenen Neuorientierung nach Abbruch eines Studiums und der Einfluss der sozialen Herkunft. In: Soziale Welt, Jg. 74, H. 2, S. 173-215. DOI:10.5771/0038-6073-2023-2-173

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"Der Beitrag untersucht erstmals umfassend die Frage, inwiefern die soziale Herkunft einen Einfluss auf die Wahl von Bildungs- und Berufsoptionen nach dem Abbruch des Erststudiums ausübt. Auf Basis der Befragung von Exmatrikulierten des Sommersemesters 2014 werden mittels Sequenz- und Clusteranalysen zunächst sechs typische Muster der Neuorientierung nach Studienabbruch ermittelt. Diese variieren hinsichtlich der Tätigkeitsarten sowie zeitlicher Dimensionen. Die soziale Herkunft erweist sich hierbei als bedeutender Einflussfaktor der Neuorientierung. Am sichtbarsten wird ihr Einfluss hinsichtlich der Abwägung zwischen einem erneuten Studium und anderen Alternativen: Personen aus vollakademischen Elternhäusern kehren eher an die Hochschule zurück. Dies weist auf eine langfristige akademische Orientierung und entsprechende Aspirationen bei statushöheren Herkunftsgruppen hin. Aber auch eine geringere Reaktivität auf Bildungsmisserfolge, das Vermeiden intergenerationaler Abwärtsmobilität sowie die kompensatorische Wirkung materieller und immaterieller Ressourcen sind hierbei von Bedeutung. Für statusniedrigere Herkunftsgruppen lässt sich im Falle eines Abbruchs des Erststudiums eher eine Abkehr von akademischer Bildung, hauptsächlich hin zur beruflichen Ausbildung oder Erwerbstätigkeit, beobachten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Larsen, Kira Solveig (2023): Ready or not, here I come: the significance of information about educational success for educational decisions. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 39, H. 5, S. 775-788. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcac075

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"This study analyses the effect of the Educational Readiness Assessment (ERA)—a scheme that categorizes students in Denmark as either ‘ready’ or ‘not ready’ for upper secondary education—on educational decision-making. Because the ERA uses a grade-specific cut-off to determine readiness, it can be used in a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of the ERA on educational decision-making. Inspired by the theory of Relative Risk Aversion (RRA), the study argues that non-service-class students respond to a negative signal by postponing the decision (not) to continue to upper secondary education, while service-class students proceed regardless of receiving a negative signal. Empirical results are mostly consistent with RRA. The policy implications of the results are that students do respond to information regarding the likelihood of educational success, but respond differently depending on their social class position." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lehmann, Wolfgang (2023): Mobility and stability: post-graduate employment experiences of working-class students. In: Journal of education and work, Jg. 36, H. 1, S. 79-93. DOI:10.1080/13639080.2022.2128188

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"The transition from university to the graduate labour market has become increasingly competitive. As university degrees no longer offer a guarantee for success, graduates mobilise other forms of capital to gain a competitive advantage. First-in-family and working-class students are seen to be disadvantaged as they lack access to the types of economic, social and personal capital employers prefer. This article is based on a qualitative longitudinal study of first-in-family, working-class students in Canada. Starting university in 2005 with very high ambitions and goals for substantial mobility, I will show how most gradually revised these goals over the 16 years they have been followed in the study, and how they engaged in a range of strategies to negotiate their potential working-class disadvantages to find career success. They further evoked a broader notion of mobility beyond career achievement, in that they also discussed personal/intellectual growth through education, their ability to develop and accumulate middle-class cultural capital, while not abandoning their working-class roots, and the importance of stability over status." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Mayrhofer, Wolfgang & Johannes Steyrer (Hrsg.) (2023): Karriereachterbahn. Was unsere Berufswege wirklich beeinflusst. Wien: Linde, 199 S.

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"Wer warum Karriere macht: Warum wird die eine Bundeskanzlerin, der andere Geschäftsführer eines mittelständischen Unternehmens und die dritte arbeitet über Jahre in Teilzeit? Wodurch werden Karrieren bestimmt? Wie sehr können Menschen ihre Karriere beeinflussen? Und: Wie stark hängt der Karriereerfolg von persönlichen und situativen Faktoren ab? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen analysiert das Buch anhand von sieben Dimensionen des Karriereerfolgs Berufsverläufe aus mehr als vier Jahrzehnten. Dafür wurden erstmals auch über 500 Studien aus einem Zeitraum von fast 50 Jahren mit über 600.000 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern sowie eine über Jahrzehnte angelegte Langzeitstudie ausgewertet. Die Daten zu individuellen Karrieren und ihren Bestimmungsfaktoren zeigen: Anstrengung und Leistung lohnen sich, auch wenn Persönlichkeit, der eigene soziale Hintergrund und die Unterstützung durch die Organisation sowie Arbeitsmarkt und Konjunktur eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Ebenfalls wird deutlich, dass der Einfluss von Persönlichkeit und strategisch-taktischem Agieren heute wesentlich größer ist als früher." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Linde Verlag)

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Meng, Ke & Shouhao Li (2023): Welfare Regimes and Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Institutional Explanation of the Great Gatsby Curve. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 165, H. 1, S. 355-375. DOI:10.1007/s11205-022-03017-1

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"Evidence shows that economic advantages and disadvantages tend to be hereditary, generating a positive association between income inequality and intergenerational immobility. This relationship, “the Great Gatsby Curve,” is explained in this article in relation to welfare regimes. Compared to Liberal and Nordic welfare regimes, Conservative welfare regime generates the highest level of intergenerational immobility. Multilevel analysis of data from International Social Survey Programme (ISSP2009) supports that Conservative regime is the strongest to keep the influence of parental backgrounds on children's wealth which is the key to determine children's socio-economic status. These findings, combined with the fact that the conservative welfare regime generates a medium-high level of economic inequality, explains why income inequality is positively and concavely correlated with intergenerational immobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Nennstiel, Richard (2023): No Matthew effects and stable SES gaps in math and language achievement growth throughout schooling: Evidence from Germany. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 39, H. 5, S. 724-740. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcac062

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"The extent to which achievement gaps become wider or narrower over the course of schooling is a topic that is widely discussed, both publicly and in educational research. This study examines whether absolute achievement (in language and math skills) and social origin gaps grow throughout the school career. To investigate the achievement growth of three German student cohorts (N = 14,273) at different stages of their school career (primary school, lower secondary school, and upper secondary school), I use multilevel models to estimate the effects of prior achievement and social origin on achievement growth. The results consistently suggest a negative association between prior achievement and subsequent growth; hence, initially low-performing students have higher achievement gains than initially high-performing students. Additionally, I find that social origin gaps remain stable over time. However, when controlling for initial achievement, slightly growing socio-economic status gaps can be observed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Orellana, Alexis & Kegon Teng Kok Tan (2023): Skills, Aspirations, and Occupations. (HCEO working paper / Human capital and economic opportunity global working group 2023,027), Chicago, Ill., 44 S.

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"It is well documented that children often "inherit" the occupations of their parents. This paper studies the role of early occupational aspirations in determining later life outcomes, a potentially important channel for intergenerational correlations in occupations. Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we estimate a lifecycle model of college choice and occupation choice to quantify the effect of aspirations on education and wages. We find that aspirations have a sizeable impact on educational attainment and wages, even conditional on latent skills that we recover from the choice model. We also simulate the importance of family background conditional on skills through the strong correlation between family background and aspirations. Our findings suggest that aspirations may be a valuable lever for reducing intergenerational inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Pietrolucci, Andrea & Marco Albertini (2023): Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children's university enrolment. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 39, H. 5, S. 789-803. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcad009

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"A number of studies suggest that parental wealth has both primary and secondary effects on offspring’s educational decisions, net of other measures family’s socio-economic status. The article documents that there is a positive association between parental wealth and children’s university enrolment in Italy, a country characterized by comparatively low levels of wealth inequality and a low enrolment rate in tertiary education. The positive association is confirmed when controlling for children’s performance in secondary school, too. Moreover, complementing previous studies, the analyses explore the extent to which different types of wealth have a different effect on children’s university enrolment, and on how this effect varies along the wealth distribution and depending on parents’ educational level. A positive effect is found only for families with non-negative net wealth and up to the 35th percentile of the wealth distribution. A threshold effect is found for financial wealth as well, being the association positive and significant up to the median of the financial wealth distribution. Real assets show a positive, albeit weaker, association up to the 30th percentile. Next, parental wealth is found to be positively associated with a higher likelihood of enrolment at university only for children of parents with a lower secondary degree or less, whereas the effect is not statistically significant for children of parents with at least an upper secondary degree." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Roth, Tobias & Markus Weißmann (2023): Ethnic Differences in Social Capital Mobilization at the Transition to Vocational Training in Germany. In: S. Weinert, G. J. Blossfeld & H.-P. Blossfeld (Hrsg.) (2023): Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories, S. 369-401. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-27007-9_17

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"In this chapter, we provide an in-depth analysis of the differences between students with and without a migration background in Germany in mobilising social capital during the transition to vocational education and training (VET) after lower secondary education. Besides retrospective information, we analyse (hypothetical) prospective information. Furthermore, we distinguish between different kinds of social contacts and different types of support. Using data from the first five waves of starting cohort 4 (9th graders) of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) we find that students rely heavily on their social contacts, with parents playing the most important role. Regarding general information and support, we find only small ethnic differences in the mobilization of non-institutional social contacts. In contrast, adolescents with a migration background tend to receive specific assistance less often from relatives outside the nuclear family and substantively less often from parents. Our results suggest that the general motivation of non-institutional social contacts to provide support at the transition to VET does not differ between natives and migrants, but that the ability of these ties to provide more specific, instrumental assistance depends on their receiving-country-specific resources and thus on their migration history." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer) ((en))

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Scharf, Jan, Michael Becker, Marko Neumann & Kai Maaz (2023): Rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation in Germany. Changing social inequalities in the transition to secondary and to tertiary education? In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 84. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100771

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"Taking as its point of departure the rapid expansion in the proportion of students graduating with a university entrance diploma (Abitur) in Germany, this paper adds to research on the mechanisms and effects of academic educational expansion, a worldwide phenomenon in the 20th and 21st century. Drawing on Boudon's theory of primary and secondary effects of social origin, we seek to understand if the educational expansion went along with a decreasing or persisting role of social background. Therefore, we analyze educational inequalities in two respects: first, in the transition from primary school to the academic track (Gymnasium) leading to the Abitur and, second, in the transition to tertiary education after academic upper secondary education. The study is based on two student cohorts (initial N = 13,026 and N = 13,873) who obtained university entrance diplomas in 2005 (cohort 1) and 2011/2012 (cohort 2) in the school system of the federal state of Hamburg (Germany). These cohorts were assessed during secondary education between 1996 (start of cohort 1) and 2012 (end of cohort 2). Employing the KHB decomposition method, we break the total effect of social background down into the relative importance of achievement differentials (primary effects) and educational decisions (secondary effects). Our findings indicate no changes in the total effects of social background and thus suggest that educational inequalities related to social origin persisted in both of the transitions we studied. However, when comparing both cohorts, we noted a clear decrease in secondary effects regarding transitions to the academic secondary track, meaning that achievement-related social differences gained in importance compared to the period before the educational expansion. At the same time, we observed a slight increase in the relative importance of secondary effects for transitions to tertiary education during the expansion. As a further result, our study shows that the rapid expansion of academic upper secondary graduation is mainly the consequence of an increase in the number of Abitur graduates via alternative paths besides the Gymnasium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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Schüle, Paul (2023): Career Preferences and Socio-Economic Background. (Ifo working papers 395), München, 50 S.

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"Career decisions, that is educational and occupational choice, are not only made by comparing expected incomes, but also by considering non-monetary rewards like social impact, chances of promotion, or the compatibility of work and family. In this paper, I use rich panel data from Germany to show that preferences about such aspects of a career as stated at age 17 are strong predictors of future earnings in the labor market. At the same time, these preferences differ significantly by socioeconomic background, and intergenerational income persistence is reduced by 8–22 percent when accounting for career preferences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Stockhausen, Maximilian (2023): Einstellungen zur sozialen Mobilität: IW-Verteilungsreport 2023. (IW-Report / Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 2023,58), Köln, 26 S.

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"Fundamental verknüpft mit der sozialen Marktwirtschaft ist die Vorstellung, dass jeder Mensch unabhängig von seiner Herkunft die Möglichkeit zum sozialen Aufstieg hat und dass es den eigenen Kindern in Zukunft bessergehen soll als den Eltern heute. Erstmals erhobene Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels erlauben für das Jahr 2021 eine aktuelle Auswertung der subjektiven Wahrnehmungen und Einstellungen zur sozialen Mobilität in der Bundesrepublik. Dabei zeigt sich, dass eine deutliche Mehrheit von 84 Prozent der befragten Eltern erwartet, dass es den eigenen Kindern im selben Alter zukünftig gleich gut (36 Prozent) oder besser (48 Prozent) gehen wird. Darüber hinaus sind junge Menschen in der Wahrnehmung ihrer eigenen künftigen Aufstiegschancen Jahre optimistischer als ältere. In der Gesamtbevölkerung erfährt darüber hinaus die Aussage, dass Anstrengung und Fleiß wesentlich für den tatsächlichen Erfolg und sozialen Aufstieg sind, eine besonders hohe Zustimmung: Rund 37 Prozent der Befragten stimmen der Aussage voll und ganz zu, weitere 52 Prozent stimmen der Aussage eher zu. Andere Faktoren wie die familiäre Herkunft, das Geschlecht und Härte gegenüber anderen spielen hingegen eine untergeordnete Rolle in der Wahrnehmung der Aufstiegsfaktoren. Insgesamt wird sozialer Aufstieg als etwas begriffen, über das man weitestgehend selbst Kontrolle besitzt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Trinh, Nhat An (2023): Why do trends in social fluidity at labour market entry and occupational maturity differ? Evidence from Germany and the UK. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 83. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100746

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"This study examines how intragenerational class mobility can lead to differing over-time trends in intergenerational class mobility depending on when class destination is measured in individuals' careers. Specifically, it tackles the puzzle why increases in social fluidity are observed when class destination is measured at labour market entry, while only trendless fluctuation is found when class destination is measured 15 years later in Germany and the UK. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2019) and the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (2009–2020) on respondents entering the labour market during the second half of the twentieth century, the analyses show that this divergence is driven by increases in 'counter mobility' that are subject to country-specific patterns. In the UK, rising counter mobility results from a growing proportion of individuals from salariat origins who enter the labour market in a lower class position but experience upward career mobility. In Germany, it is driven by a rising proportion of individuals from working class backgrounds who start their careers in a higher class but experience downward career mobility. No evidence for origin-specific changes in the relative importance of upward and downward career mobility is found. The results provide a strikingly similar picture for women and men in either country." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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Weißmann, Markus & Tobias Roth (2023): Pre-existing company contacts and premature termination of apprenticeship training in Germany. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 87. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100839

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"Using longitudinal data from Starting Cohort 4 of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we examined whether pre-existing strong ties and weak ties in the training company are associated with the risk of premature termination of apprenticeship training in Germany. This is highly relevant for the literature on social capital in the labor market since so far little is known about the role of social contacts for the turnover propensity of labor market entrants. By examining a potentially important factor for a successful labor market integration, our research also adds to both the school-to-work and the social stratification literature. Our empirical results are only partly consistent with our theoretically derived expectations. While contrary to our expectations, we found no association between strong ties and termination probability, weak ties were, as expected, associated with a lower probability of premature training termination among those apprentices who were trained in their desired occupation. Our main results, combined with several robustness checks, let us assume that this is due to better matched training situations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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Wittner, Britta & Simone Kauffeld (2023): Social capital and career planning amongst first generation and non-first generation high school and college students in Germany: a social network analysis approach. In: International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Jg. 23, H. 2, S. 295-317. DOI:10.1007/s10775-021-09513-z

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"Soziales Kapital ist ein wichtiger Erfolgsfaktor für First-Generation Studierende (FGS) an Hochschulen. Um die Unterschiede im sozialen Kapital zwischen FGS und nicht-FGS (NFGS) zu beleuchten, werden die Strukturen ihrer egozentrierten Sozialen Netzwerke sowie der Zusammenhang zu ihrer Karriereplanung analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zweier Querschnittsstudien (je mit Oberstufenschülerinnen und Erstsemesterstudierenden) zeigen, dass FGS über signifikant geringeres soziales Kapital in ihren Netzwerken verfügen und dieses nutzen können. In der Schule sind unterstützenden Akademiker*innen wichtig für die Karriereplanung, während zu Beginn des Studiums instrumentelle Unterstützung benötigt wird." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag)

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Zuccotti, Carolina V. & Lucinda Platt (2023): The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK. In: The British journal of sociology, Jg. 74, H. 4, S. 733-754. DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.13047

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"Despite predominantly lower social class origins, the second generation of established immigrant groups in the UK are now attaining high levels of education. However, they continue to experience poorer labour market outcomes than the majority population. These worse outcomes are often attributed in part to their disadvantaged origins, which do not, by contrast, appear to constrain their educational success. This paper engages with this paradox. We discuss potential mechanisms for second-generation educational success and how far we might expect these to be replicated in labour market outcomes. We substantiate our discussion with new empirical analysis. Drawing on a unique longitudinal study of England and Wales spanning 40 years and encompassing one per cent of the population, we present evidence on the educational and labour market outcomes of the second generation of four groups of immigrants and the white British majority, controlling for multiple measures of social origins. We demonstrate that second-generation men and women's educational advantage is only partially reflected in the labour market. We reflect on the implications of our findings for future research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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"Diese Studie untersucht, welchen Einfluss die Dimension „Soziale Herkunft“ auf die MINT-Bildung von Kindern und Jugendlichen hat. Sie liefert gleichzeitig konkrete Empfehlungen für die Praxis, um mehr Chancengleichheit zu schaffen und so die Diversität in MINT-Berufen zu verbessern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Deutscher Bundestag. Wissenschaftliche Dienste (2023): Zum Zusammenhang von Kinderarmut und Bildungsabbrüchen. (Dokumentation / Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste WD 9 - 3000 - 056/23), Berlin, 11 S.

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"Rund jedes fünfte Kind ist in Deutschland aktuell von einer finanziellen Risikolage betroffen. Diese liegt vor, wenn das in Abhängigkeit von der Haushaltszusammensetzung berechnete Haushaltseinkommen unterhalb der Armutsgefährdungsgrenze liegt. Auch eine Erwerbstätigkeit der Eltern schützt nicht unbedingt vor dieser Situation.1 Annähernd 1.000 Lebensmitteltafeln versorgen hierzulande regelmäßig ca. 1,5 Millionen Menschen mit Essen, von denen sich ungefähr ein Drittel im Kindesalter befinden. Mehr als zwei Millionen von insgesamt 13,6 Millionen Kindern wachsen in Familien auf, die auf Sozialhilfe angewiesen sind, in sogenannten SGB-II2 -Bedarfsgemeinschaften.3 Diese Dokumentation beschäftigt sich auftragsgemäß mit den Zusammenhängen von Kinderarmut und Bildungsabbrüchen in den letzten zehn Jahren. Es werden wissenschaftliche Beiträge vorgestellt, die die Schulbildung und weiterführende Bildungswege junger Menschen in Deutschland in den Blick nehmen und nach Ursachen und Folgen von Armut befragen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Achatz, Juliane, Nancy Reims, Malte Sandner & Brigitte Schels (2022): Disadvantaged young people find the transition from school to work particularly difficult. In: IAB-Forum H. 08.02.2022 Nürnberg, 2022-02-04. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20220208.01

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"How the transition from school to working life takes place sets the course for individual labour market opportunities. This transition is particularly difficult for disadvantaged young people. Different factors come into play: studies of young people in Germany show that in addition to low or no educational qualifications, attending a special needs school, having a disability, or growing up in low-income families are further barriers to a successful transition. Participation in support programmes can only partially offset these disadvantages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Arntz, Melanie, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer & Ulrich Zierahn (2022): Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities. (ZEW discussion paper 22-014), Mannheim, 73 S.

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"This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also show that this significantly contributed to a decline in the overall wage penalty experienced by workers from disadvantaged parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill- upgrading, do not explain these findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Barbieri, Paolo & Filippo Gioachin (2022): Social origin and secondary labour market entry. Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 77. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100670

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Becker, Rolf, Sandra Gilgen & Elmar Anhalt (2022): Bildungsvorstellungen im sozialen Wandel – eine Kohortenanalyse für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Zeit von 1958 bis 2018. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 51, H. 1, S. 23-40. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2022-0003

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"Ziel der vorliegenden Kohortenanalyse ist es, die frühere Studie von Meulemann (1982) über den Wandel von Bildungsvorstellungen in der Bevölkerung zu replizieren. Hierbei wird seine implizite These, die Bildungsexpansion seit den 1960er Jahren sei verantwortlich für den sozialen Wandel subjektiver Interpretationen sowohl von Bildungschancen als auch von Wert, Inhalt und Zielen der Bildung gewesen direkt überprüft. Dazu werden zwei Zeitdimensionen – historische Periode und Abfolge von Geburtskohorten – berücksichtigt und neben den ursprünglich verwendeten Datensätzen auch aktuelle Daten analysiert. Zudem werden zusätzliche erklärende Argumente eingeführt. Für einen Zeitraum von 60 Jahren werden periodenspezifische und kohortendifferenzierende Effekte der Bildungsexpansion auf die subjektive Wahrnehmung von Bildung aufgedeckt. Bildungschancen werden trotz gestiegener Bildungsgelegenheiten zunehmend kritischer von den jüngeren Kohorten beurteilt. Die meritokratischen Spielregeln werden weiterhin akzeptiert, jedoch bezweifeln jüngere Kohorten zunehmend, dass Bildung der Weg zum sozialen Aufstieg ist. Schließlich unterliegen auch die schulischen Erziehungsziele einem sukzessiven Wertewandel." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter)

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Böhnke, Petra, Marion Fischer-Neumann & Janina Zölch (2022): Einmal arm, immer arm? Zur intergenerationalen Transmission von Armutsrisiken. In: K. Marquardsen (Hrsg.) (2022): Armutsforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Forschung, S. 163-175.

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"Armutserfahrungen in der Kindheit beschneiden Lebenschancen und erhöhen die Wahrscheinlichkeit, auch im Erwachsenenalter arm zu sein. Was trägt zur Verfestigung von Armut über Generationen hinweg bei und was kann sie verhindern? Um Antworten auf diese Frage zu finden, beleuchtet der Beitrag das Zusammenspiel von Familie, sozialen Netzwerken sowie sozialräumlichen und institutionellen Kontexten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Consiglio, Valentina S. & Denisa M. Sologon (2022): The myth of equal opportunity in Germany? Wage inequality and the role of (non-)academic family background for differences in capital endowments and returns on the labour market. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 159, H. 2, S. 455-493. DOI:10.1007/s11205-021-02719-2

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"While providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual's socio-economic background is a major objective of German policy makers, educational opportunities of children with a non-academic family background are still unequally obstructed. When analysing the labour market implications of this disadvantage, social capital as an additional source of inequality often lacks attention. Drawing on the instrumental value of rather loose contacts (i.e. weak ties) on the labour market as revealed by Granovetter (Getting a job. A study of contacts and careers, The University of Chicago Press, Cambridge, 1974), this paper goes beyond the human capital approach and includes a measure of instrumental social capital in the form of weak-tie career support in the earnings function. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and quantile regressions, we find a significant average wage gap between those with and without an academic family background. A large part can be explained by deficits that those from less educated families incur with respect to human and instrumental social capital: Lower educational attainment accounts for more than half of the wage gap between the two groups while fewer career support explains around five percent of the differential. Additionally, a non-academic family background is associated with a significant deficit in returns to their instrumental social capital along the wage distribution. The findings therefore suggest that inequalities of opportunity on the German labour market occur beyond the education system, as not only the quantity but also the quality of career supporting networks of those from a non-academic family are inferior." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))