Modeling spatial opportunity structures and youth's transitions from school to training.

Autor/inn/en	Wicht, Alexandra; Nonnenmacher, Alexandra
Titel	Modeling spatial opportunity structures and youth's transitions from school to training.
Quelle	In: Open journal of statistics, 7 (2017) 6, S. 1013-1038 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2161-718X; 2161-7198
DOI	10.4236/ojs.2017.76071
Schlagwörter	Übergang Schule - Beruf; Ländlicher Raum; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Strukturschwacher Raum; Berufschance; Übergang Ausbildung - Beruf; Deutschland
Abstract	This paper examines the significance of spatial externalities for youths' school-to-training transitions in Germany. For this purpose, it is necessary to address the methodological question of how an individual's spatial context has to be operationalized with respect to both its extent and the problem of spatial autocorrelation. Our analyses show that the "zone of influence" comprises of the whole of Germany, not only close-by districts, and that these effects differ between structurally weak and strong regions. Consequently, assuming that only close proximity affects individual outcomes may disregard relevant contextual influences, and for spatial models that require an a priori definition of the weights for spatial units, it may be erroneous to make a decision based on this assumption. Concerning spatial autocorrelation, we found that neglecting local spatial autocorrelation at the context level causes considerable bias to the estimates, especially for districts that are close to the home district (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2020/2