Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Cross-national differences in social background effects on educational attainment and achievement: absolute vs. relative inequalities and the role of education systems
We use PIAAC data to study the relationship between parental education and educational success among adults from 23 advanced economies. We consider educational success in terms of both educational attainment (formal qualifications) and educational achievement (competencies) and in both absolute and relative terms (i.e. as the individual’s rank in the distribution of educational success). Parental education effects are stronger for educational attainment than for achievement in all countries. Cross-national variation in the strength of social background effects follows broadly similar patterns for the different ways of measuring success, but a few countries combine relatively strong achievement with relatively weak attainment effects and vice versa. Tracking in secondary education is associated with stronger background effects for educational attainment but not for achievement. Greater prevalence of formal (non-formal) AET is associated with stronger (weaker) background effects for both attainment and achievement, while vocational orientation of upper secondary education does not matter much.
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Englisch
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Seite(n): 1-20
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1469-3623
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
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Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 49
Bildungs- und Erziehungssoziologie
soziale Herkunft
Bildungsniveau
Bildungsabschluss
soziale Ungleichheit
Bildungswesen
Sekundarbereich
internationaler Vergleich
Elbers, Benjamin
Solga, Heike
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Heisig, Jan Paul
- Elbers, Benjamin
- Solga, Heike
Entstanden
- 2019
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