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Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

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  • Compiles empirical analyses utilizing the longitudinal NEPS data sets
  • Offers an overview on current results to an interdisciplinary audience
  • Contains interdisciplinary empirical work
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About this book

This Open Access book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research program to utilize data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), which included over 100.000 participants in six nationally representative panel studies. Renowned researchers from the fields of sociology, psychology, educational science, economics, and survey methodology have used the (longitudinal) data for their substantive and/or methodological questions and present important results of their research projects. This edited volume contains contributions from the following four topics: (1) Competence Development: Individual Characteristics, Learning Environments, and other Contextual Factors, (2) Educational Transitions and Pathways: Influencing Factors and Outcomes, (3) Vocational Training and Labour Market, and (4) Individuals with Migration Background. It provides essential insights for researchers, postdocs, PhD students, and university students of different scientific disciplines interested in educational sciences as well as for policy makers who have to deal with educational problems in modern societies.


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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Competence and Skill Development: Individual Characteristics, Learning Environments, and Contextual Factors

  2. Vocational Training and Labour Market

  3. Individuals with Migration Background

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Sabine Weinert

  • Department for Sociology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld

  • TRAc, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld

About the editors

Sabine Weinert is head of the Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Bamberg. Her research focuses on the development of competencies, their impact and influencing factors. She acted as scientific head of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; a large-scale multicohort study) and coordinates the interdisciplinary DFG Priority Programme ‘Education as a Lifelong Process‘.

Gwendolin J. Blossfeld is a coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme 1646 ‘Education as a Lifelong Process’ and a postdoctoral fellow of the Twinning Project ‘YouthLife’ which are both located at the University of Bamberg. She has organized substantive and methodological workshops for the DFG Priority Programme 1646. Her substantive research interests are in the fields of educational sociology, methods of longitudinal data analysis, social inequality, and demography.

Hans-Peter Blossfeld is Emeritus of Excellence at the University of Bamberg and coordinates (together with S. Weinert) the interdisciplinary DFG Priority Programme ‘Education as a Lifelong Process.‘ He is the founder of the NEPS and held a Chair of Sociology at the University of Bamberg. He is an internationally renowned expert on life-course research, statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis, modern methods of quantitative social research, cross-national research, social inequality, youth, family, educational sociology, labor market research, demography, and social stratification and mobility.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

  • Book Subtitle: Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

  • Editors: Sabine Weinert, Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld, Hans-Peter Blossfeld

  • Series Title: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27007-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27006-2Published: 15 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27009-3Published: 15 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27007-9Published: 13 April 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2367-170X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2367-1718

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 423

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Education, general, Sociology of Education, Pedagogic Psychology

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