Educational Expansion and Its Consequences for Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in West Germany

By David Reimer, Reinhard Pollak. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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• Why are higher education participation rates in Germany so low? Institutional barriers to higher education expansion (2011, methodology): “Analysing data from school‐leaver surveys conducted by the German Higher Education System Institute (HIS) from 1983 to 1999, Reimer and Pollak ( 2010 ) show that even though the proportion of those eligible for tertiary education doubled, enrolment rates remained stable among all postsecondary pathw”
• Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe (2015, background): “49 Social background of national student populations 3 Furthermore, the index does not account for possible horizontal inequalities (Reimer & Pollak, 2010; Lucas, 2001).”
• Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Educational Transitions in West Germany (2014, background): “Social selectivity is very strong at the first transition (Stocké, 2007) and further visible at transitions into tertiary education (Reimer and Pollak, 2010).”