Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Traag Tanja 
Author-Name: Velden Rolf K.W. van der
Author-workplace-name: ROA rm
Title: Early school-leaving in the Netherlands
Abstract: The role of student-, family- and school factors for early school-leaving in lower secondary educationMost studies on early school-leaving address only partial causes of why some students leave school early. This study aims to develop a more elaborate model to explain early school-leaving in lower secondary education, taking into account individual, family and school factors at the same time. By using a longitudinal dataset we are able to attribute clear causal relations between the different factors. We distinguish four groups of school-leavers, separating ‘dropouts’ (those without any qualification) from those who left school after attaining a diploma in lower secondary education (‘low qualified’), those who pursued education as an apprentice (‘apprentices’) and the ones who continued education and received a full upper secondary qualification (‘full qualification).  Discerning these four groups shows clear differences in the background of different types of early school-leavers and in the effects of school factors.
Keywords: labour market entry and occupational careers; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 003
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:d3899792-fa1b-4875-a43b-a8c2fd252361/datastreams/ASSET1/content
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 299655
Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2008003