The adult stage (Stage 8) of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) focuses on the adult working age population in Germany and serves, in many respects, as a capstone for the NEPS structure. Its main purpose is to collect data from Starting Cohort 6 (SC6, adults) on adult education, specifically on formal, nonfor- mal, and informal further training; on competence endowment and its development over the life course; and on monetary and nonmonetary returns to initial and adult education in a life-course perspective. The data include a large number of theoreti- cally derived determinants of adult education and competencies, as well as informa- tion on returns within and outside of the labor market. Detailed information on the learning environments at a workplace or in a household makes it possible to contex- tualize the returns to education. On the one hand, the SC6 data contain detailed ret- rospective information on education, labor market participation, and households; on the other hand, they provide yearly panel information from currently ten waves (as of
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Allmendinger, J., Kleinert, C., Pollak, R., Vicari, B., Wölfel, O., Althaber, A., … Trahms, A. (2019). Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (pp. 325–346). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23162-0_17
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