Transnational Human Capital and Social Inequality

在全球化进程的背景下，超越自己的民族国家的限制，我们称之为跨国人力资本的行动能力正变得越来越重要。该项目的第一阶段主要集中在两个方面：首先，我们通过对德国报纸招聘广告的定量内容分析，实证研究了1960年至2010年职位要求规范的变化。其次，基于布迪厄斯理论和德国社会经济研究小组的数据，我们分析了特定阶级获得跨国人力资本的途径，选择了学校期间出国留学项目的例子，以及它对生命历程的影响。拟议的后续项目有两个目标：1)我们迄今为止在德国获得的结果需要通过国际比较来补充，以便更准确地确定背景因素对跨国资本需求和获取的影响；为此，我们计划将定量内容分析扩展到更多的国家，并分析国际调查数据。2)对跨阶层人力资本获取的完整分析需要通过对父母的定性访谈来扩展和深化。只有进行定性分析，才有可能重构获得跨国人力资本的阶级特定机制。

Within the context of globalization processes, the ability to act beyond the confinements of ones own nation-state which we refer to as transnational human capital is becoming increasingly more important. The first phase of this project focused on two aspects: First, we empirically examined the change of job requirement specifications from 1960 to 2010, based on a quantitative content analysis of job advertisements in German newspapers. Second, based on Bourdieus theory and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analysed class-specific access to transnational human capital, choosing the example of study-abroad programmes during school time, and its effects on the life course. The proposed follow-up project has two aims: 1) The results we obtained so far with regard to Germany need to be supplemented by international comparisons in order to determine more precisely the influence of contextual factors on the demand for, and the acquisition of, transnational capital; for this, we plan to extend the quantitative content analysis on more countries and analyse international survey data. 2) The completed analysis of the class-specific access to transnational human capital needs to be extended and deepened by qualitative interviews with parents. Only a qualitative analysis will make it possible to reconstruct the class-specific mechanisms of acquiring transnational human capital.