Explaining higher VET dropout rates among adolescents with a migration background in Germany: the role of career compromises.

Autor/inn/en	Busse, Robin; Glauser, David; Scharenberg, Katja
Titel	Explaining higher VET dropout rates among adolescents with a migration background in Germany: the role of career compromises. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Erklärung der höheren Berufsausbildungsabbruchquote bei Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland: die Rolle von Berufskompromissen.
Quelle	In: Empirical research in vocational education and training, (2025) 17, 33 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1877-6345
DOI	10.1186/s40461-024-00176-y
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Ungleichheit; Inländer; Migrationshintergrund; Sozialer Status; Ausbildung; Berufsprestige; Berufsinteresse; Berufswahl; Berufswunsch; Ausbildungsberuf; Betriebliche Berufsausbildung; Abbruch; Alternative; Quote; Ursache; Ausländer; Jugendlicher; NEPS (National Educational Panel Study); Deutschland
Abstract	"Research has consistently revealed that adolescents with a migration background are more likely to drop out from vocational education and training (VET) at the upper-secondary level than their native peers. While recent research has provided rich empirical evidence of mechanisms leading to dropouts from VET, little is known about such mechanisms for adolescents with a migration background. In our contribution, we assume that the difficulties that adolescents with a migration background face when entering the VET system are associated with a restricted range of occupational opportunities and, thereby, higher levels of career compromises in terms of the desired and attained VET occupation. Following previous findings on key dimensions of career compromise, we examine the relevance of compromises in the field of work and social status in explaining the higher propensity of adolescents with a migration background to drop out from their first VET position. Using logistic regressions and KHB decomposition analyses, our results underline that gaps in VET dropout rates between adolescents with and without a migration background can partially be ascribed to migration-specific compromises in the field of work between the aspired and attained VET occupation, while compromises in social status seem to be unimportant." The study refers to the period 2011-2016 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/3