Berufliche Weiterbildung und subjektives Wohlbefinden: Abschätzung der Effekte einer Weiterbildungsteilnahme auf Zufriedenheit, Sorgen und Gesundheit in Deutschland / Work-Related Training and Subjective Well-Being. Estimating the Effect of Training Participation on Satisfaction, Worries, and Health in Germany

Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-25513-8_5

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“…Based on our results, we can rule out a direct, causal within-person effect of ALE participation on life satisfaction. Hence, our findings are consistent with prior research in the field (e.g., Jenkins and Wiggins 2015;Ruhose et al 2020) showing no significant effects of ALE on SWB.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Although research on the effects of education for SWB mainly addresses the effects of primary, secondary, and higher education, few studies also focused on learning in adult life and its impact on well-being, with mixed results: While most studies (Narushima 2008;Schuller et al 2002;Withnall 2009;NIACE 2009;Åberg 2016;Dolan et al 2012) find a positive effect of participating in ALE on SWB, other studies (Jenkins and Wiggins 2015;Ruhose et al 2020) report no significant effects. Further studies (Feinstein and Hammond 2004;Jenkins 2011) report mixed effects (both positive and negative), depending on the provider of the courses and the learning contents.…”

Section: Swb and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These studies made an important contribution to the field. Nevertheless, they also show clear limitations: They either build exclusively on qualitative research methods (Narushima 2008;Schuller et al 2002;Withnall 2009) or on cross-sectional data (NIACE 2009), solely investigate effects of work-related training (Ruhose et al 2020) or learning that leads to a qualification (Jenkins and Wiggins 2015), could not investigate lagged effects because of small sample sizes (Dolan et al 2012), solely focus on older adults (Jenkins 2011;Åberg 2016), or use data that is somewhat limited regarding participants' age (33-42 years) and that spans over several years with only two SWB measurement points (Feinstein and Hammond 2004). Most importantly, none of the studies addresses effects of participating in ALE for immigrants.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Participation in Adult Education on Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives: A Longitudinal Analysis

2021

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Beyond formal education, continuing adult learning and education (ALE) is considered as successful means for supporting immigrants’ integration into the receiving society. Although recently, subjective parameters of immigrants’ integration (e.g., life satisfaction) have received increasing academic attention, research on the impact of education on subjective integration indicators is still rare. To address this, the present study contributes to the literature by investigating the effect of ALE participation on life satisfaction in a longitudinal design. The study compares the effect for the group of immigrants with the group of natives in order to estimate whether the potential education effect on life satisfaction is equally strong for both groups or stronger for the group of immigrants (interaction effect). For this, the study uses seven waves of panel data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) with N = 6386 individuals, of which N = 1002 individuals have a migration background. Methodologically, a Random Intercepts Cross-Lagged Panel Model is applied. This allows distinguishing within-person fluctuations from trait-like between-person differences. On the between-person level, we find a significant link between ALE participation and life satisfaction for both immigrants and natives. However, on the within-person level, no significant cross-lagged effects are observed. Moreover, we find no support for an immigrant-native gap in life satisfaction.

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The Effect of Participation in Adult Education on Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives: A Longitudinal Analysis

2021

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“…Participation has been shown to confer both monetary and nonmonetary benefits to the individual (Ruhose et al, 2019(Ruhose et al, , 2020. In addition, integration courses are an important opportunity for refugees to build a network in their new home country (Adam et al, 2019).…”

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Scaling up and Crowding out: How German Adult Education Centers Adapted Course Offers to Refugee Integration

Thomsen

Weilage

2021

Adult Education Quarterly

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Language skills are central to refugee integration and the availability of language courses could thus be a limiting factor. We explore how the most important provider of language courses in Germany, adult education centers (VHS), adapted their course supply to the refugee wave of 2015/2016. Our results highlight two channels through which the local environment can affect opportunities for participation in adult learning: First, exploiting the quasi-random allocation of refugees to counties, we causally estimate by how much VHS scaled up their German language course (DAF) supply as a reaction. Moreover, we show that DAF courses were created almost exclusively at the cost of other courses, that is, by crowding out. Second, we uncover heterogeneities in scaling success. VHS with more prior DAF course experience and larger VHS adapted better, which shows the relevance of initial conditions in course offers.

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“…Regarding non-monetary returns, it is assumed that adult learning can improve one's health, wellbeing, life satisfaction, social and political participation as well as literacy and numeracy skills (Schrader et al 2020). Several studies have so far examined the benefits of adult education in terms of mental and physical health, life satisfaction and overall well-being 3 (Dolan et al 2012;Hatch et al 2007;Matrix Knowledge Group 2009;Ruhose et al 2020;Wang et al 2020), partially with restriction to certain subgroups (women, low-skilled, older people or migrants) (Granderath et al 2021;Hoffmann et al 2020;Iñiguez-Berrozpe et al 2020;Jenkins 2011;Jenkins and Mostafa 2015;Narushima et al 2013Narushima et al , 2018. The state of research on health-related behaviours is characterized by less evidence, although specific health-related behaviours come into focus, especially when it comes to the practical question of how AET can help improve adult health.…”

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The effect of adult education on health-related behaviours

Kohl

Martin

2023

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Unhealthy behaviours continue to be pervasive and lead to premature death worldwide. According to previous research, school education appears to be a good predictor of unhealthy behaviours. The influence of adult education and training (AET) on health behaviour, on the other hand, has hardly been studied. Existing studies provide only indicative evidence on AET returns in terms of health-related behaviours, with no study to date examining the German context. Longitudinal data from NEPS SC6 (N = 7089) are used to examine whether participation in adult education affects changes in health-related behaviour positively, i.e., whether participants smoke or drink less and are more frequently active in sports. Hybrid regression models with interaction terms are estimated to test specific theoretical mechanisms. While participation in AET does not show any positive behavioural change in sports activity or alcohol consumption, participants in AET are more likely to smoke following AET participation within the last 12 or between the last 24 and 36 months. Implications are discussed and linked to the existing state of research.

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The Effect of Participation in Adult Education on Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives: A Longitudinal Analysis

The Effect of Participation in Adult Education on Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives: A Longitudinal Analysis

Scaling up and Crowding out: How German Adult Education Centers Adapted Course Offers to Refugee Integration

The effect of adult education on health-related behaviours

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