Steffen Schindler, David Reimer
Differentiation and social selectivity in German higher education

Higher Education. The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2011: 61, Heft 3, S. 261-275

In this paper we investigate social selectivity in access to higher education in Germany and, unlike most previous studies, explicitly devote attention to semi-tertiary institutions such as the so-called universities of cooperative education. Drawing on rational choice models of educational decisions we seek to understand which factors influence upper secondary graduates from different socialausklappen