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- Title
Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany.
- Authors
Beckmann, Janina; Wicht, Alexandra; Siembab, Matthias
- Abstract
This study investigates the relevance of career compromises (i.e. the discrepancy between the expected and the actually attained training position) to the decision to drop out of vocational education and training (VET), focusing on compromises in terms of social status and gender type. We pay particular attention to upward and downward compromises. Using longitudinal data on 7205 apprentices from the German National Educational Panel Study (Starting Cohort 4), the results of discrete event history models show that both dimensions of compromise are crucial to the decision to drop out of a first VET position. In particular, downward gender-type discrepancies increase the probability that female apprentices will drop out. These findings draw attention to the role of pre-entry VET policies, such as career counseling, in minimizing the incidence of career compromises.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONS; VOCATIONAL education; SOCIAL status; GENDER; VOCATIONAL guidance
- Publication
Social Forces, 2023, Vol 102, Issue 2, p658
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sf/soad063