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Direct linkNairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus; Spiegl, Judith – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Despite an expansion of educational opportunities throughout the EU, access to university is still distributed based on social inequality. This tendency can be observed in all EU countries, with Germany, Austria and Slovakia showing particularly low levels of upward mobility. Many working-class students or other non-traditional students never even…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Higher Education, Interviews, College Students
Jacob, Marita – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
In a recent paper on gender inequality in higher education Buchman and DiPrete (2006) assume that the decrease in the gender gap in college completion in the US can partly be explained by changes in the allocation of familial resources in favour of women. However, they do not test this hypothesis empirically. In this paper I examine the effects of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Siblings, Daughters
