Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of
knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to …

Our aim is to assess how the number of working-class students entering German universities
can effectively be increased. Therefore, we estimate the proportion of students from the …

Zweifelsohne ist Bildung immer noch eine der drängenden sozialen Fragen unserer
Gegenwart. Bildung ist eine der wichtigsten Investitionen in die gesellschaftliche …

The main goal is to explore institutional stratification within higher education in a
comparative perspective, and its relationship with social inequality. In the first part, the …

Zusammenfassung Zusammenfassung: Soziale Ungleichheiten im Bildungssystem sind ein
gut dokumentierter Befund. Die Befunde der großen internationalen Schulleistungsstudien …

We ask how the advantages and disadvantages in the educational careers of children of
immigrants in Sweden are produced, making a theoretical distinction between mechanisms …

For scholars of social stratification one of the key questions regarding educational
expansion is whether it diminishes or magnifies existing inequalities in educational …

Students from a lower socioeconomic background have a higher risk of dropping out of
higher education. The underlying mechanisms of this association between socioeconomic …

Our aim in this article is to reveal crucial factors affecting the access to higher education
claimed in rational action theories in Germany. Data on the educational choices of high …

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …