Can adult education compensate for early disadvantages? The role of adult education in reducing inequalities for German men and women

Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compensation is a successful mechanism for social mobility, contrasting it against competing types of resource accumulation such as multiplication. The chapter focuses on the role of adult education in compensating social inequalities.