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Educational attainment: a French-German comparison

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  • Lauer, Charlotte

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This documentation analyses the structure of educational attainment in France and Germany. While France and Germany share in many respects similar socioeconomic structures, they sharply differ with respect to their educational system. First, the three-tiered secondary school system in Germany, where pupils are streamed after primary schooling according to their learning ability into different secondary schools, contrasts with the situation in France, where all pupils attend a single structure up to upper secondary level. Moreover, in France, general education is more prized than vocational education. The French maturity certificate, has a key position in the educational system, while vocational education tends to be reserved to those pupils who have failed on the way to maturity completion. By contrast, the German education system is strongly oriented towards vocational training and the apprenticeship has a central position. At the higher education level, a relatively homogenous system in Germany can be opposed to a much more differentiated landscape in France, both in terms of types of institutions and of gradation of educational credentials.

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  • Lauer, Charlotte, 2001. "Educational attainment: a French-German comparison," ZEW Dokumentationen 01-02, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:zewdok:0102
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    1. Lauer, Charlotte, 2004. "Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects," ZEW Discussion Papers 04-54, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    2. Lauer, Charlotte, 2002. "A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case," ZEW Discussion Papers 02-06, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    3. Lauer, Charlotte, 2003. "Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison based on a multivariate ordered probit model of educational attainment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 231-251, April.
    4. Tucci, Ingrid, 2004. "Konfliktuelle Integration?," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 14, pages 299-317.
    5. International Monetary Fund, 2004. "France: Selected Issues," IMF Staff Country Reports 2004/346, International Monetary Fund.

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