Research in the German National Educational Panel Study intends to provide the empirical basis for a longitudinal analysis of individuals' educational careers and competencies and how they unfold over the life course in relation to formal as well as nonformal/informal learning environments. In order to track educational developments and decisions over the life span, six main samples serve as the foundation for the characterization and analysis of educational processes. These six main samples include newborns, Kindergarten children, secondary school children (fifth and ninth grade), first-year undergraduate students and adults. They are accompanied Z Erziehungswiss (2011) 14:51-65 52 C. Aßmann et al.by several additional samples allowing an analysis of special groups, e.g., special needs pupils. Given that for several of the starting cohorts access to the target population is gained via educational institutions like Kindergartens and schools, multistage sampling approaches reflecting the multistage access to the target populations are implemented. Samples in individual contexts as for the cohorts of adults and newborns are established via register-based stratified cluster approaches. The designs of the implemented sampling strategies are shortly reviewed for each established sample.
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional nature of the globalization process and then develops an overall sociological index of globalization, which the authors call GlobalIndex. This index covers the development of globalization in 97 different countries from 1970 to 2002. Using the GlobalIndex, the authors describe the development of globalization on a worldwide scale as well as for different country contexts. Finally, they include the GlobalIndex as an explanatory variable in two microlevel longitudinal analyses of labour market transitions during the early career period in Germany and the UK.
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