Done with a degree? Immigration-specific disparities among holders of bachelor's degrees in the transition to graduate studies in Germany.

ABSTRACT: In many Western societies, immigrants make more ambitious educational choices than their native counterparts of equal academic achievement and social origin. These ambitious decisions have been mainly observed at early and middle educational stages, whereas research on choices within higher education is scarce. Against this background, we investigate whether immigrants make more ambitious decisions than natives do also after having graduated from bachelor's programs in Germany. We theoretically derive that variations in immigration-specific differences in educational choices can be expected based on social origin and country of origin, as well as between the application for and the actual enrollment in graduate studies. Using survey data on educational trajectories of bachelor's degree hol

SUBMITTER: Neumeyer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10602756 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature