Starting from the recent discussions on the crisis of vocational education and the increasing destandardization and jeopardization of educational and professional careers, the author analyzes the importance of vocational education in the careers of six different cohorts born in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1919 and 1961. The empirical study centers on the question of how much the behavior of the West German birth cohorts regarding vocational training and further education changed over a period of more than four decades. In more concrete terms, the author examines whether cohort-specific patterns of vocational training and further edcation have become more irregular and precarious or whether, on the contrary, trends of long-term stability and continuity in the experiences regarding vocational training predominate.
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