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%T Class Origin and Young Adults' Re-Enrollment %A Jacob, Marita %A Weiss, Felix %J Research in Social Stratification and Mobility %N 4 %P 415-426 %V 29 %D 2011 %@ 0276-5624 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-437898 %X This paper examines re-enrollment decisions taken by adults who have previously participated in the labor market in the US. We investigate the influence of social origin on re-enrollment and test hypotheses based on the "status reproduction" argument. We find that young adults from the lower classes re-enroll less often than those from the upper classes and that these differences can be attributed to a large extend to different ability or performance. Beyond the effects of social origin as such, we also scrutinize the effects of the child's class position relative to family status as a more direct implication of the "status reproduction" argument. Our analyses reveal that once young adults from higher status positions have reached their parents' class, re-enrollment is somewhat less likely to occur. However, this effect of the child's relative class to the parents' is rather weak. %C NLD %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info