Chair: Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Forum)
Panelists:
Augustin Emane (Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes)
Patricio Solís (El Colegio de México, Mexico City)
Anja Weiß (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
In many societies, (higher) education has been equated with a form of professional formation whose focus lies on the requirements of enterprises. At the same time, a reduced individual dividend for education (that is, a decreasing value of titles and degrees because of an increasing level of education throughout the whole society) has become observable. To what extent are opportunities in the labor market dependent on education and (to what extent) has this connection loosened during the last decades? Besides university studies, which alternative routes are likely to lead to a successful career? How are the factors of inter-generational inequality, on the one hand, and education and the labor market, on the other, intertwined?