Background Regional opportunity structures have received little attention in research on
educational aspirations and attainment. This papers aim is to address whether regional …

Regional context conditions can have a crucial impact on school-to-work transitions and
subsequently individual life chances. This paper aims to develop an approach to analyse …

Upper secondary education in Switzerland is divided into a general and a vocational path.
Approximately two thirds of adolescents attend the vocational path. The initial vocational …

In Switzerland, baccalaureate school is still considered to be the royal road to a university
education and the elite path for the social reproduction of the upper class. However …

In sociological research on the inequality of educational opportunities (IEO) across the life
course, there is a need for longitudinal data in order to disentangle processes and …

The paper investigates long-term trends in the association between educational attainment
and class destinations in Germany. Most recent evidence for several European countries …

The German educational system is characterized by a large sector of dual vocational
training, which facilitates integration into the labour market. This system creates a specific …

The debate on territorial cohesion and spatial inequality recognises the role and influence
different scales have on individuals' opportunities with extended effects especially for young …

The Swiss cantonal education systems account for the structural organisation of lower-
secondary education (streamed, cooperative or integrated models). We examined whether …

Aim of this work is to evaluate the overall effect of social origins on secondary school track
enrolment in Italy, Germany and Netherlands, allowing for consistent cross country …