Akademikerkinder gehen häufiger während des Studiums ins Ausland. Ihr Vorsprung hat zwischen 1997 und 2006 sogar zugenommen. Die Weichen werden in der Schulzeit gestellt: Schüler mit Auslandserfahrung studieren später öfter international.

This discussion paper deals with the social selectivity of internationally mobile German students prior to and after the Bologna Process thereby linking two mobility dimensions that a very rarely brought together - social and spatial mobility. Tackling this issue on multiple levels, I ask how...

Research consistently reports pronounced earnings differences between men and women, even among the highly educated. This article investigates whether students' responsiveness to information on income returns relates to gender differences in major choices, which might contribute to the...

On the basis of theories of cultural reproduction and rational choice, we examine whether access to study-abroad opportunities is socially selective and whether this pattern changed during educational expansion. We test our hypotheses for Germany by combining student survey data and...