Educational Expansion and Social Reproduction in Europe

Research question/goal: 

This project examines the consequences on the role of education for access to occupational positions that derive from the massive educational expansion and from the extensive structural changes in labour markets which have taken place in recent decades in most modern societies. A further question concerns the effect these changes have on the reproduction of social inequalities, particularly between social classes, status groups, and gender. Comparing for recent decades the respective developments in various European countries the project studies the mechanisms at work and assesses the impact of different educational and labour market institutions.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
DFG, MZES
Duration: 
1996 to 2002
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Labour Force Surveys and Panel-Data
Geographic Space: 
Western Europe

Publications

Books

Scherer, Stefani (2004): Erwerbseintritt und Berufsverlauf. Westdeutschland, Italien und Großbritannien im Vergleich. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang. [Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 22: Soziologie); 393] more
Steinmann, Susanne (2000): Bildung, Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarktchancen in Deutschland. Eine Studie zum Wandel der Übergänge von der Schule in das Erwerbsleben. Opladen: Leske+Budrich. more
Shavit, Yossi, and Walter Müller (Eds.) (1998): From School to Work. A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations. Oxford: Clarendon Press. more