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。高等教育辍学通常被认为是“失败的”，但辍学的原因与随后的教育和职业生涯一样是多方面的。已有一些研究探讨了辍学的原因和辍学的短期去向。然而，他们的生命历程的长期发展却没有被探索。同样未被经验性社会研究触及的还有制约资源和限制、由此产生的路径依赖和辍学前后的选择机制。在计划中的研究项目中，我们旨在研究高等教育辍学学生的长期教育和职业发展途径。将特别关注通过工作流动性和经验以及公司内外的继续教育来获得地位和能力。此外，我们努力调查自己和家庭资源在放弃的过程中的作用--我们的决定和随后的路径。我们特别感兴趣的是，是否可以通过使用或获得替代资源来弥补或取代缺乏正式资格的情况。

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.