Sandra Buchholz’s research while affiliated with Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung GmbH and other places

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Advantage ‘Finds Its Way’: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education
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October 2019

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This article discusses key findings from eduLIFE, a cross-national project that examined the emergence of social inequalities in 17 countries characterized by different models of secondary education. First, we build upon existing international studies and propose a broader classification of forms of differentiation in secondary education. Second, we elaborate a fourfold typology of secondary education systems. Third, we provide a longitudinal and comparative analysis of how social background, academic performance, and forms of secondary schooling create heterogeneous educational opportunities for recent generations. In particular, we discuss: (1) the allocation of students to different forms of secondary schooling; (2) student mobility among different types of education; and (3) the consequences of differentiation in secondary schooling for students’ educational careers. Our findings suggest that, on average, more privileged families successfully exploit the opportunities provided by specific institutional configurations of school systems in order to secure the most favourable outcomes for their children.



Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLIFE ProjectBedingungen und Konsequenzen ungleicher Bildungschancen im Lebenslauf: Ergebnisse aus dem international vergleichenden eduLIFE-Projekt

May 2019

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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Using longitudinal data, this chapter studies the development of educational inequalities over the life course in 12–17 different industrialized societies. By comparing highly-standardized country case studies in specific phases of the educational career, it provides evidence of major communalities in modern societies. First, the cross-national findings show that educational inequalities are created and perpetuated in family settings, early in a child’s life, long before children start school. Children from less privileged families are the ones who are least likely to attend high-quality institutions, and if they do, their gains are only moderate and generally too small to effectively counteract the family influence. When children are in school, the comparative analyses demonstrate that socioeconomically-advantaged families manage to secure the “pole positions” in education for their children, regardless of the organizational specificities of the school system across different countries. They always succeed in strategically exploiting various opportunities provided by different school systems. Finally, the cross-national comparisons of adult learning over the life course show a strong cumulative advantage: Adult learning tends to reproduce and reinforce the outcomes of initial formal education in the later adult life course.



Linking the macro to the micro: a multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries

June 2017

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European Societies

Recent research into educational inequalities has shown the importance of decomposing social origins into parental class, status and education, representing economic, socio-cultural and educational family resources, respectively. But we know little about how inequalities in educational attainment at the micro-level map onto institutional characteristics of educational systems at the macro-level, if we treat social origins in a multidimensional way. Drawing on the rich over-time variation in educational systems in four European countries – Britain, Sweden, Germany and Italy – this paper develops and tests a number of hypotheses regarding the effects of various components of social origins on individuals’ educational attainment in different institutional contexts. It is evident from our results that a great deal of similarity exists across nations with different educational systems in the persisting importance for individuals’ educational attainment of parental class, status and education. But our findings also indicate that changes in the institutional features of educational systems have, in some instances although not in others, served to reinforce or to offset the social processes generating educational inequalities at the micro level.







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... На национальные рынки труда оказывают влияние также процессы глобализации мировой экономической системы. Анализируя труды H.-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholdz, K. Kurz [62], J.B. McKelvey [102], R.D. Vogel [148], J. Spatz, P. Nunnenkamp [135], R. McQuaid [104], Ю. Саулитис [260], С.В. Сигова, К.А. ...

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Рынок труда в условиях демографических изменений
Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies
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  • September 2011

... Second, we explore two additional dimensions: the timing of re-enrollment and the level and continuity of progression within the educa-in the OECD 1 countries (OECD, 2024)-and its robust system of non-compulsory re-enrollment pathways. These pathways, which include vocational tracks and remedial programs, offer a unique opportunity to analyze how social class influences the utilization of utilization of second opportunities in a mixed education system that combines elements of stratification and comprehensive access (Blossfeld et al., 2016). ...

Varieties of secondary education models and social inequality – Conclusions from a large-scale international comparison
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  • November 2016

... Socio-economic disparities pose another formidable challenge to continuous improvement in comparative education research and professional activity. Educational inequalities rooted in socio-economic factors such as income, race, and geographic location contribute to divergent outcomes and opportunities for students worldwide (e.g., Skopek, Triventi, & Buchholz, 2019). Marginalized or discriminated communities often lack access to quality education, resources, and support systems, perpetuating cycles of disadvantage across generations (Hartsmar et al., 2021). ...

How do educational systems affect social inequality of educational opportunities? The role of tracking in comparative perspective
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  • August 2019

... In the past, early retire ment ben e fits were more gen er ous. For instance, in West Germany in the 1980s, and with some restric tions until 2007, one path way to retire ment was leav ing employ ment at age 58, receiv ing unem ploy ment ben e fits for two years, and then retir ing at age 60 (Buchholz et al. 2013). ...

Reversing Early Retirement in GermanyA Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Recent Pension Reforms on the Timing of the Transition to Retirement and on Pension Incomes
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  • December 2013

Comparative Population Studies

... So wird angenommen, dass privilegierte Familien einen höheren Nutzen davon haben, wenn ihre Kinder eine akademische Bildung erlangen, da sie dadurch zusätzlich einen Statusabstieg vermeiden können (relative risk aversion; Breen & Goldthorpe, 1997). Privilegierte Familien sind keine passiven Akteure, sie haben Ziele und nutzen die vorhandenen Möglichkeiten in verschiedenen Bildungssystemen, um ihren Kindern eine vorteilhafte Position im Bildungssystem zu verschaffen (Farkas et al., 1990;Barg, 2019;Dumont et al., 2019;Goldstone et al., 2023;Triventi et al., 2020). Diese Prozesse werden auch im Kontext von effectively maintained inequality im Bil-dungssystem diskutiert (Lucas, 2001). ...

Advantage ‘Finds Its Way’: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education
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  • October 2019

Sociology

... Blossfeld et al. [2] claim that there may be ceiling effects, so that individuals are no longer able to climb the educational ladder. In this sense, Banta et al. [1] state that due to the ceiling effect, high-skill students who achieved high standardized test scores as freshmen are not able to show substantial growth in their scores as veterans. ...

Conditions and consequences of unequal educational opportunities in the life course: results from the cross-national comparative eduLIFE Project
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  • January 2019

... The analysis uses Starting Cohort 5 (SC5) of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany, which consists of 17,910 students who entered higher education for the first time in the winter term of 2010 and who were surveyed in 14 waves until 2018 (Blossfeld et al., 2019). 2 It is a rich dataset where, in addition to the educational trajectory and career progression, students are asked about their individual characteristics, like their social environment. ...

Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLIFE ProjectBedingungen und Konsequenzen ungleicher Bildungschancen im Lebenslauf: Ergebnisse aus dem international vergleichenden eduLIFE-Projekt
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  • May 2019

KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

... The majority of children in Western societies participate in center-based, out-of-home childcare [1]. As out-of-home childcare is also part of the educational program in many countries, previous research studies have suggested that out-of-home childcare has many positive effects on children's socio-emotional development, cognitive skills, and educational outcomes [2,3]. Alongside with the possible advantages, earlier research studies have also shown that attending non-parental, out-of-home childcare is associated with elevated cortisol levels for some children [4,5]. 1 3 In out-of-home childcare settings, young children may need to cope in a different caregiving environment; with parental separation; and with interactions with multiple adults and peer relations, which may involve emotional arousal. ...

Childcare Arrangements at preschool age and later child outcomes in Denmark : The role of maternal education and type of care
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  • January 2017

... (1) One of the mechanisms is the availability of material and nonmaterial resources, which could be especially relevant for the cognitive dimension of well-being. For instance, a favorable home learning environment, including assistance with homework or preparation to exams (Baker & Stevenson, 1986;Bukodi et al., 2018;Eccles & Davis-Kean, 2005), might be especially relevant for the cognitive dimension of well-being such as school satisfaction due to educational progress and success (e.g., Bayer et al., 2021). Furthermore, participation in specific courses and programs in line with interests and talent (Furstenberg et al., 1999) might not only be related to life satisfaction, but also offer opportunities for positive interactions to peers with same interests (Oreopoulos & Salvanes, 2011). ...

Linking the macro to the micro: a multidimensional approach to educational inequalities in four European countries
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  • June 2017

European Societies

... The study shows two interdependent trends: an increase in adult participation in educational programs during life and an increase in the share of educational activities supported by employers (Rubenson, 2017). The growing interest in adult education is associated with accelerated structural and technological changes in the labor market of globalized societies (Wahler, Buchoholz, Myrup Jensen & Unfried, 2014). Adult life-long learning is considered to be an important factor in improving socioeconomic equality. ...

Adult Learning in Denmark : Patterns of Participation in Adult Learning and Its Impact on Individuals’ Labor Market Outcomes
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  • June 2014