Vocational qualification as safety-net? Education-to-work transitions of higher education dropouts in Germany
Abstract Background In Germany, almost 15 per cent of all first-year students leave higher education without obtaining a degree. The German post-secondary educational system is tracked however, and many dropouts enter the labour market with pre-tertiary vocational training certificates. We therefore...
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| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40461-017-0050-7 |