This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed insights into a highly contested policy field.

Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patterns. This is puzzling since understanding immigrants' integration requires just the kind of dynamic research approach this approach puts forward: any integration theory actually refers to life course processes. This volume shows fruitful cross-linkages between the two research traditions.

A range of studies are presented that all apply sociological life course concepts to research on migrants and migrant groups in Europe. The book is organized thematically, indicating different important domains in the life course. Using a wide variety of methodological approaches, it covers both quantitative studies based on population census data and survey material as well as qualitative studies based on interviews. Attention is paid to the life courses of those who migrated themselves as well as their offspring. The studies cover different European countries, relating to one national context or a particular local setting in a city as well as cross-country comparisons. Overall the book shows that applying the sociological life course approach to migration and integration research may advance our understanding of immigrant settlement patterns as well as further develop the life course perspective

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which educational institutions accomplish social integration. It poses the question of whether they can reduce social inequality, - or whether they even facilitate the transformation of heterogeneity into social inequality. Divided into five parts, the volume offers new insights into the many factors, processes and policies that affect performance levels and social inequality in educational institutions. It presents current empirical work on social processes in educational institutions and their outcomes. While its main focus is on the primary and secondary level of education and on occupational training, the book also presents analyses of institutional effects on transitions from vocational training into tertiary educational institutions in an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach.

In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajecto ries and pat terns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and de velopment of educa tion systems can be traced back to inherent national factors, as well as to the interna tional diffusion of ideas. The research presented in this volume is a wide-ranging analysis and explana tion of the dynamics of emergence, diffusion, and change in relation to state educa tion systems. The chapters offer an empirical investigation into whether the global diffusion of West ern-rational educational content and organizational forms occurs as expected by neoinstitu tionalist theory, or whether culturally specific developmen tal paths dominate in different parts of the world. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in various social science disci plines, including social policy, education, sociology, political science, international relations, organizational the ory, and economics.

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which educational institutions accomplish social integration. It poses the question of whether they can reduce social inequality, - or whether they even facilitate the transformation of heterogeneity into social inequality. Divided into five parts, the volume offers new insights into the many factors, processes and policies that affect performance levels and social inequality in educational institutions. It presents current empirical work on social processes in educational institutions and their outcomes. While its main focus is on the primary and secondary level of education and on occupational training, the book also presents analyses of institutional effects on transitions from vocational training into tertiary educational institutions in an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach.

Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patterns. This is puzzling since understanding immigrants' integration requires just the kind of dynamic research approach this approach puts forward: any integration theory actually refers to life course processes. This volume shows fruitful cross-linkages between the two research traditions. A range of studies are presented that all apply sociological life course concepts to research on migrants and migrant groups in Europe. The book is organized thematically, indicating different important domains in the life course. Using a wide variety of methodological approaches, it covers both quantitative studies based on population census data and survey material as well as qualitative studies based on interviews. Attention is paid to the life courses of those who migrated themselves as well as their offspring. The studies cover different European countries, relating to one national context or a particular local setting in a city as well as cross-country comparisons. Overall the book shows that applying the sociological life course approach to migration and integration research may advance our understanding of immigrant settlement patterns as well as further develop the life course perspective

This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed insights into a highly contested policy field.

This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and it is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy. The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics.

This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several subfields of social policy, in order to interrogate which network dimensions drive this process. The focus is on a global perspective of social policy diffusion via networks, and it is the first book to explicitly follow this macro-quantitative perspective on diffusion at a global scale whilst also comparing different networks. The collection tests the network structures in terms of their relevance to the diffusion process in different subfields of social policy such as old age and survivor pensions, labor and labor markets, health and long-term care, education and training, and family and gender policy. The book will therefore be invaluable to students and researchers of global social policy, sociology, political science, international relations, organization theory and economics.

In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajecto ries and pat terns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and de velopment of educa tion systems can be traced back to inherent national factors, as well as to the interna tional diffusion of ideas. The research presented in this volume is a wide-ranging analysis and explana tion of the dynamics of emergence, diffusion, and change in relation to state educa tion systems. The chapters offer an empirical investigation into whether the global diffusion of West ern-rational educational content and organizational forms occurs as expected by neoinstitu tionalist theory, or whether culturally specific developmen tal paths dominate in different parts of the world. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in various social science disci plines, including social policy, education, sociology, political science, international relations, organizational the ory, and economics.

In den letzten 20 Jahren hat die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung vermehrt ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf Ereignisse gerichtet, die entweder im Zeitverlauf oder in definierten Zeitintervallen eintreten. Die fur die statistische Analyse dieser Ereignisse entwickelten Regressionsverfahren werden in diesem einfuhrenden Lehrbuch anschaulich und anwendungsorientiert dargestellt. Gemeinsam ist diesen Verfahren, dass sie fur abhangige Variablen entwickelt wurden, die nicht stetig normal verteilt sind was bei Ereignissen eher die Regel ist. Die lineare Kombination von erklarenden Variablen und geschatzten Koeffizienten wird uber je spezifische Linkfunktionen transformiert, um die letztlich interessierenden zu erklarenden Grossen vorherzusagen."

In dem Lehrbuch werden grundlegende Methoden zur Analyse von Paneldaten vorgestellt. Die Autoren diskutieren dabei die unterschiedlichen Motive zur Verwendung von Paneldaten und leiten dann fur unterschiedliche Variablentypen, Fragestellungen und Motive die jeweils passende Regressionsmethode ab. Die Mechanik und Funktionsweise der verschiedenen Methoden wird dabei auf der Basis replizierbarer Beispiele verdeutlicht, das Buch ist somit gleichzeitig Lehr- und Ubungsbuch. Neben der Darstellung zentraler Analysetechniken (Fixed Effects, Random Effects, Hybride Ansatze) bieten die Autoren den Leserinnen und Lesern konkrete Entscheidungsstrategien zur Auswahl des geeigneten Verfahrens in unterschiedlichen Analysesituationen.

In dieser Studie wird die Analyse der Arbeitsmarktmobilitat mit dem organisationsokologischen Ansatz und der evolutionaren Okonomie verbunden. Erkenntnisleitend ist dabei die Annahme, dass ein wesentlicher Teil der sozialen Positionen in Organisationen eingebettet ist. Wenn die Populationen von Organisationen aber aufgrund von Grundungen und Schliessungen einem permanenten dynamischen Austausch unterliegen, ist es fur eine strukturalistische Mobilitatsforschung unerlasslich, diese Prozesse sowohl in die theoretische Konzeptualisierung als auch in die empirische Analyse einzubeziehen. Auf der theoretischen Ebene deutet sich damit eine evolutionare Theorie der Sozialstruktur an. Im empirischen Teil der Arbeit wird der Zusammenhang von Organisationsokologie und Beschaftigtenmobilitat unter anderem als dynamischer Mehrebenenprozess untersucht.

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage untersuchen die sozialen Beziehungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund. Zumeist werden netzwerkanalytische Methoden verwendet, mit denen unterschiedliche Formen und Grade der Integration operationalisierbar sind. Die Beitrage basieren uberwiegend auf Daten des an der Universitat Bremen angesiedelten DFG-Projektes Integration durch Freundschaft? Dynamiken sozialer Assimilation von Kindern aus Migrantenfamilien in multiplexen Peernetzwerken ."