The Role of Educational Upgrading in the Formation of Social Inequality

该项目分析了社会不平等形成的动态过程。其核心问题是教育升级如何影响或改变社会出身与劳动力市场结果之间的关系。将调查在获得第一个教育证书后的正规和非正规教育活动如何在整个生命过程中加强或减弱这种联系。作为劳动力市场的结果，我们将考虑职业职位和收入的变化。NEPS-SC6-ADIAB数据将作为实证分析的基础。该数据集将国家教育小组研究（NEPS）的起始队列6与社会保障登记数据联系起来，这些数据是就业研究所（IAB）就业轨迹行政数据综合文件的一部分。这使该项目能够利用关于1944年至1986年之间出生的人的教育和就业轨迹的非常详细的数据。该项目将包括三个后续阶段。第一阶段将专门讨论进入劳动力市场后正规和非正规教育升级对社会不平等的影响。第二阶段将致力于在进入劳动力市场之前进行正规教育升级的后果。第三阶段将致力于查明不同形式的教育升级对社会出身和劳动力市场结果之间的全面联系的相对贡献。通过系统地采取生命历程的视角，并通过对社会不平等产生过程中教育的相关动态考虑（由于新数据源的可用性，这现在是可能的），该项目将为社会流动性研究提供新的见解。

The project analyses the dynamic processes in the formation of social inequality. At its core is the question how educational upgrading influences or alters the association between social origin and labour market outcomes. It will be investigated how formal and non-formal education activities after a first educational credential either reinforce or attenuate this association over the life course. As labour market outcomes, we will consider both changes in occupational positions and earnings. The NEPS-SC6-ADIAB data will serve as basis for the empirical analyses. This dataset links the Starting Cohort 6 of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) with social security register data, which are part of the integrated file on administrative data on employment trajectories of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). This enables the project to draw on very detailed data on educational and employment trajectories of persons born between 1944 and 1986. The project will comprise three subsequent phases. The first phase will be devoted to the consequences of formal and non-formal educational upgrading after labour market entry for social inequality. The second phase will be devoted to the consequences of formal educational upgrading before labour market entry. The third phase will be devoted to identifying the relative contributions of the different forms of educational upgrading to the overall association between social origin and labour market outcomes. By systematically taking on a life-course perspective and through the related dynamic consideration of education in the generative process of social inequality (which is now possible due to the availability of new data sources) the project will deliver new insights for social mobility research.