Higher Education Entry Certificate Obtained via the Traditional Academic Track and Institutions of Second-Chance Education. Adult Reading Literacy and Socioeconomic Status at Labor Market Entry
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Blossfeld, Gwendolin J.
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Otto Friedrich Univ Bamberg, Augustenstr 6, D-96047 Bamberg, GermanyOtto Friedrich Univ Bamberg, Augustenstr 6, D-96047 Bamberg, Germany
Today, higher education entry certificates are not only obtained via the traditional academic track (Gymnasium'), but increasingly also through the institutions of second-chance education. The aim of this article is to describe how these two educational pathways to higher education relate to reading competencies in adulthood and the socioeconomic status at labour market entry. The results show that adults who obtained their higher education entrance qualification through the academic track have a higher average reading competence than adults who have obtained the higher education entry certificate through the pathways of second -chance education. However, the distributions of the reading competencies in both groups strongly overlap. In addition, it becomes clear that labour market entrants who have obtained their higher education entry certificate via the Gymnasium have a higher average socioeconomic status at labor market entry than their peers who have obtained this entry certificate via second-chance education.