School leavers with low educational attainment face great difficulties in their school-to-work transitions. They are, however, quite heterogeneous in terms of their personal and social resources. These within-group differences may influence who shows initiative during the school-to-work...

Nur die Hälfte der Jugendlichen, die höchstens einen Hauptschulabschluss haben, schafft den direkten Übergang in eine Ausbildung. Weder kognitive Fähigkeiten noch soziale Kompetenzen erhöhen die Übergangschancen dieser Jugendlichen. Solange vor allem Noten und Abschlüsse zählen, ist der...

This review focusses on the transition of low-achieving school leavers - that is, those who left regular schools or special schools for students with learning disabilities without or with only a lower secondary school degree - into the vocational education and training (VET) system. Most of them...

Kinder aus höheren Schichten werden fünfmal so oft fürs Gymnasium empfohlen wie Kinder aus sozial schwächeren Familien - auch bei gleichen Leistungen. Die Halbtagsschule gleicht Leistungsunterschiede zwischen sozial schwächeren Kindern und Kindern aus Familien mit besseren Ressourcen nicht...

We investigate the impact of external differentiation and vocational orientation of (lower and upper) secondary education on country variation in the mean numeracy skills of, and skills gaps between, adults with low and intermediate formal qualifications. We use data on 30- to 44-year-olds in 18...

Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of that system are (a) firm-based training programs accompanied by a schoolbased component (of one to two days per week), in which apprentices acquire upper secondary general...

Zum Thema Chancengleichheit im Bildungsbereich liegen viele Forschungsergebnisse vor. Die vorliegende Studie systematisiert die Forschungsbefunde und bedarfe zu sozialer Ungleichheit in der außer/schulischen Bildung. Diese Systematisierung erfolgt aus einer institutionellen und...

Only few previous studies have explored cross-national variation in the relationship between educational certificates and competences. In this paper, we investigate the certificate-competence relationship, operationalized as skills gaps by level of educational attainment. More importantly, we...