IET Open Seminar: "Increasing permeability of the German education system and its consequences for educational and labor market opportunities and skills in early adulthood"

The TLU Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life-course Studies invites to join for a discussion of the links between education system and labor market opportunities and skills of youth in Germany.

In our next open seminar, Dr Gwendolin Blossfeld from University of Bamberg presents her paper entitled "Increasing permeability of the German education system and its consequences for educational and labor market opportunities and skills in early adulthood".

Today, higher education entry certificates are not only obtained via the traditional academic track (the “German Gymnasium”), but increasingly also through the institutions of second-chance education. The aim of this presentation is to describe how these two educational pathways to higher education relate to reading competencies in adulthood and the socioeconomic status at labour market entry. The results show that adults who obtained their higher education entrance qualification through the Gymnasium have a higher average reading competence than adults who have obtained this entrance qualification through the pathways of second-chance education. However, the distributions of the reading competencies in both groups strongly overlap. In addition, it becomes clear that labour market entrants, who have obtained their higher education entry certificate via the Gymnasium, have a higher average socioeconomic status at labor market entry than their peers who have obtained this entry certificate via second-chance education.

Speaker:

Gwendolin Blossfeld is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG Priority Programme 1646 “Education as a Lifelong Process. Analyzing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)”

Location: Zoom (link will be sent to people who have registered)

The series of open seminars is organized by the TLU Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life Studies (IET), funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ASTRA project "TLU TEE Tallinn University as a promoter of intelligent lifestyle"). In 2021, the seminars are co-organised by the consortium of YouthLife Project.