Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

Chapter 1 Introduction – Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

Chapter 2 Quality of Early Learning Environments: Measures, Validation, and Effects on Child Development

Chapter 3 The Emergence of Gender-Specific Competence Patterns and Decision Making During the Course of Educational and Job Careers in Germany

Chapter 4 Patterns and Predictors of Literacy and Numeracy Development During Adulthood: Insights from Two Longitudinal Assessment Surveys

Chapter 5 The Interplay Between Instructional Pace, Skill Externalities, and Student Achievement: An Empirical Assessment

Chapter 6 Addressing Environmental and Individual Factors in Early Secondary School: The Roles of Instruction Techniques and Self-Perception

Chapter 7 An Illustration of Local Structural Equation Modeling for Longitudinal Data: Examining Differences in Competence Development in Secondary Schools

Chapter 8 Inequality in Educational Transitions During Secondary School: Results from the German National Educational Panel Study

Chapter 9 Alternative Routes to Higher Education Eligibility: Inclusion, Diversion and Social Inequality on the Way to Higher Education

Chapter 10 Dropping Out of Higher Education in Germany: Using Retrospective Life Course Data to Determine Dropout Rates and Destinations of Non-completers

Chapter 11 Studying Influences of Socio-economic Contexts and Spatial Effects on Educational Careers

Chapter 12 Low-Achieving School-Leavers in Germany: Who Are They and Where Do They Go?

Chapter 13 Occupational Sex Segregation and its Consequences for the (Re-)Production of Gender Inequalities in the German Labour Market

Chapter 14 Employment-Related Further Training in a Dynamic Labour Market

Chapter 15 Regional Factors as Determinants of Employees’ Training Participation

Chapter 16 Is the First Language a Resource, an Obstacle, or Irrelevant for Language Minority Students’ Education?

Chapter 17 Ethnic Differences in Social Capital Mobilization at the Transition to Vocational Training in Germany