Parental separation is a disadvantageous life event with many consequences for the children who experience it. This article investigates the influence of parental separation on father and mother involvement in their children’s lives in adolescence using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and employing family fixed-effects models to control for omitted variable bias. The results ...
Research on educational mobility is concerned with inequalities between families. Differences in innate abilities and parental responses lead, however, to educational differences between siblings. If parental responses vary by family socioeconomic background, within-family inequality can affect between-family inequality (i.e., educational mobility). This study uses data from the German Socio-Economic ...
This chapter studies the associations among social origin, educational attainment and labour-market outcomes in Germany for cohorts born between 1947 and 1984. Our analysis adds to a large body of studies on social mobility in Germany (e.g. Breen and Luijkx 2007; Grätz 2011; Ishida et al. 1995; Mayer and Aisenbrey 2007; Müller and Pollak 2004). Apart from including data on cohorts younger than those ...