Transitions to post-secondary and tertiary education in the Netherlands: A trend analysis of unconditional and conditional socio-economic background effects

Higher Education

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-100

  Tieben, Nicole ^a   Wolbers, Maarten H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conditional; Social inequality; Tertiary education; The Netherlands; Transitions; Trend; Unconditional; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953480509     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-009-9289-7     Document Type: Article

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