sectors employers are cautious to hire and promote someone who appears to be different now my colleague milty audition it's caught up with an educational research to find out more about the factors that keep people from moving up the social ladder here in germany. yes i am a model foreigner my father was a janitor my mother a social worker both born in greece i've become a journalist i'm here at arsenal book university to ask why some people climb the ladder some don't. i'm about to hear how difficult it is for children from disadvantaged backgrounds to advance in germany the expert i've come to meet as. an education professor here who study social mobility. when you look at how children are encouraged starting in the family you find all kinds of extra curricular activities like music lessons or language tutoring and the like are used to very different extents the more privileged the parents are the more they take part in such activities while disadvantaged families make less use of them. i was lucky that my mother encouraged my talents outside school until i graduated from high school with a