Educational- and occupational careers of tertiary education drop-outs. A longitundinal analysis with the NEPS-Erwachsenenpanel

在德国，大约20-25%的一年级学生从未从高等教育毕业。高等教育辍学往往被视为“失败”，但辍学的原因与随后的教育和职业生涯一样多方面。有一些研究报告审查了辍学的原因和辍学者的短期去向。然而，他们的生命历程的长期发展，没有探索。经验社会研究同样没有触及的是制约资源和限制，以及由此产生的辍学前后的路径依赖和选择机制。在计划中的研究项目中，我们的目标是仔细研究高等教育辍学者的长期教育和职业途径。将特别注重通过工作调动和经验以及公司内外的进一步教育来获得地位和能力。此外，我们努力调查的作用，自己和家庭资源的过程中放弃我们的决定和随后的途径。我们特别感兴趣的是，缺乏正式资格是否可以通过使用或获取替代资源来补偿或替代。

Approximately 20-25% of all first year students in Germany never graduate form tertiary education. Tertiary education drop-out is often perceived as „failure“, but the reasons for dropping out are as multifaceted as the subsequent educational and occupational careers. A number of studies exist that examine the reasons for drop-out and the short-term whereabouts of drop-outs. The long-term development of their life-courses however, is not explored. Equally untouched by empirical social research are the conditioning resources and restrictions, the resulting path-dependence and selection-mechanisms before drop-out and after. In the planned research project we aim to scrutinize on the long-term educational and occupational pathways of tertiary education drop-outs. A special focus will be on the status- and competence- attainment through job-mobility and experience, as well as further education in and outside the company. Furthermore we strive to investigate the role of own and family resources in the process of drop-our decisions and the subsequent pathways. We are especially interested if the lack of formal qualifications can be compensated or substituted by the use or acquisition of alternative resources.