Finding compromises and its consequences - path dependencies between occupational choice, educational decisions, and training pathways

寻找妥协及其后果——职业选择、教育决策和培训路径之间的路径依赖

• 批准号: 381212222
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Corinna Kleinert
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/381212222?language=en
• 关键词: Finding; compromises; its; consequences; path

The project investigates the process of occupational choice in the transition from school and its consequences for take-up and progress of post-school education. Processes of occupational choice and connected educational decisions are important steps in adolescents' development; at the same time, training occupations set the course for their further careers. In Germany, occupations play a key role in shaping the transition to employment and in (re-)producing social inequality. However, educational pathways in Germany have profoundly changed in the course of educational expansion and structural labour market change. Alongside these trends an increase of qualitative mismatch on the training market has been observed.Against this background it is a crucial question how such imbalances may develop. Previous research provides only limited information on this issue. So far, there are many studies on single aspects of school-to-work transitions, such as occupational choices, educational decisions, entries into post-school education, and training dropouts, but they are widely isolated in terms of their conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches. What has hardly been applied - also due to a lack of appropriate longitudinal data - is a dynamic perspective, which takes into account the fact that occupational choices, decisions taken during transitions, and their revision are consecutive steps in the transition process. The proposed project aims at closing these research gaps by generating basic knowledge from a longitudinal perspective about supply-side mechanisms, which contribute to explain qualitative matching problems in training and post-school education. To this end, we focus on the process of occupational choice in the transition from school and explore its path dependencies with regard to transitions to post-school education and their further progress. Our main questions are: How do adolescents adapt their occupational and educational aspirations to the expectations of their surroundings and to the realities of the training market before finishing school? Which consequences do these compromises have for their further education and training careers? How does social stratification, particular with regard to social background, affect this process and how does this influence develop over the transition process? To answer these questions, we use longitudinal data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort 4, to investigate the careers of ninth-grade students. We enrich these data with structural information on training occupations taken from official statistics. This enables us to examine adolescents' preferences for occupational fields, their willingness to make compromises in certain dimensions, such as income prospects or job security, the quality of the match between occupational aspiration and training occupation, and the consequences of these parameters for further educational careers.

该项目调查了从学校过渡的职业选择过程及其对接受和完成学校后教育的影响。职业选择过程和相关的教育决定是青少年发展的重要步骤;与此同时，职业培训为他们今后的职业生涯确定了方向。在德国，职业在形成就业过渡和（重新）产生社会不平等方面发挥着关键作用。然而，德国的教育途径在教育扩张和劳动力市场结构变化的过程中发生了深刻的变化。除了这些趋势外，还观察到培训市场上质量不匹配的情况有所增加，在这种背景下，这种不平衡如何发展是一个关键问题。以前的研究在这个问题上提供的信息有限。到目前为止，有许多研究的单一方面的学校到工作的过渡，如职业选择，教育决策，进入后学校教育，培训辍学，但他们广泛孤立的概念，理论和实证方法。由于缺乏适当的纵向数据，几乎没有采用的是动态视角，这种视角考虑到职业选择、过渡期间作出的决定及其修订是过渡过程中的连续步骤。拟议的项目旨在缩小这些研究差距，从纵向角度提供关于供应方机制的基本知识，这有助于解释培训和毕业后教育中的质量匹配问题。为此，我们专注于从学校过渡的职业选择的过程中，并探讨其路径依赖性方面的过渡到学校后的教育和他们的进一步发展。我们的主要问题是：青少年在完成学业之前如何使其职业和教育愿望适应其周围环境的期望和培训市场的现实？这些妥协对他们的继续教育和培训事业有什么影响？社会分层，特别是社会背景，如何影响这一过程，以及这种影响如何在转型过程中发展？为了回答这些问题，我们使用国家教育小组研究（NEPS）的纵向数据，开始队列4，调查九年级学生的职业生涯。我们丰富了这些数据的结构信息培训职业从官方统计。这使我们能够研究青少年对职业领域的偏好，他们愿意在某些方面做出妥协，如收入前景或工作保障，职业愿望和培训职业之间的匹配质量，以及这些参数对进一步教育生涯的影响。