Changes in the returns to education at entry into the labour market in West Germany.

IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Rolf Becker, Hans-Peter Blossfeld
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Abstract

This article studies to what extent societal processes such as educational expansion, economic modernisation and business cycles have affected the returns to educational certificates of women and men entering the labour market in West Germany. Using longitudinal data, long-term changes in cohort- and period-specific effects on socio-economic status attainment at entry into the labour market are investigated between 1945 and 2008. Analyses demonstrate that the entrants' average socio-economic prestige scores have clearly risen in the process of modernisation. Despite educational expansion, increasing skill demands for highly qualified graduates resulted in rising rates of returns for the most highly educated entrants across birth cohorts. While educational expansion and economic modernisation have boosted socio-economic returns at entry into the labour market for women from all educational levels, it has not been the case for men with the lowest levels of education. Both educational expansion and rising skill requirements of occupations led to an increasing polarisation of inequality between tertiary educated labour-market entrants and less-qualified school leavers. Educational expansion in West Germany has therefore never exceeded the occupational skill demands at entry into the labour market.

西德进入劳动力市场时教育回报的变化。
本文研究了教育扩张、经济现代化和商业周期等社会进程在多大程度上影响了西德女性和男性进入劳动力市场的教育证书回报。利用纵向数据,研究了1945年至2008年间进入劳动力市场时,群体和特定时期对社会经济地位的影响的长期变化。分析表明,在现代化进程中,新进入者的平均社会经济声望得分明显上升。尽管教育规模不断扩大,但对高素质毕业生的技能需求不断增加,导致出生队列中受教育程度最高的进入者的回报率不断上升。虽然教育扩张和经济现代化提高了所有教育水平的妇女进入劳动力市场时的社会经济回报,但对教育水平最低的男子却并非如此。教育的扩张和职业技能要求的提高导致受过高等教育的劳动力市场进入者和不太合格的学校毕业生之间的不平等日益两极分化。因此,西德的教育扩张从未超过进入劳动力市场时的职业技能需求。
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