Sobreeducación y preferencias políticas: efectos del desajuste entre educación y empleo sobre el posicionamiento ideológico, el radicalismo y el voto a izquierda y derecha

• Caínzos, Miguel ^[1] ; Voces, Carmen ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

     Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

     Santiago de Compostela, España

     
• Localización: RES. Revista Española de Sociología, ISSN 1578-2824, ISSN-e 2445-0367, Vol. 32, Nº. 2, 2023
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.22325/fes/res.2023.158
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Overeducation and political preferences: Effects of educational mismatch on ideological self-placement, radicalism, and left-right voting
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  • español

    El artículo estudia la relación entre experiencia de sobreeducación y preferencias políticas en España, un país caracterizado por una alta tasa de sobreeducación. Usando datos de dos encuestas postelectorales, estimamos Modelos de Referencia Diagonal para contrastar hipótesis acerca de los efectos del desajuste entre educación y empleo sobre el posicionamiento ideológico, el radicalismo y el voto a izquierda y derecha. Encontramos indicios de que la sobreeducación está asociada a posicionamiento más a la izquierda y a mayor probabilidad de votar a partidos de izquierda. Los efectos son modestos y están moderados por la edad: solo se encuentran para los trabajadores más jóvenes. Esto podría ser debido a razones contextuales (en España, el discurso público sobre la sobreeducación la ha presentado como un problema de los jóvenes) o a factores estructurales (la inconsistencia de estatus solo es políticamente relevante en la medida en que el grado de cristalización estructural de las posiciones de estatus es bajo).

  • English

    The aim of the article is to study the relationship between the experience of overeducation and political preferences in Spain, a country with a high rate of overeducation. Using survey data from two post-electoral surveys, we estimate Diagonal Reference Models to test hypotheses on the effects of educational mismatch on ideological self-placement, ideological radicalism, and left-right voting. We find indications that overeducation is somewhat associated with a more left-wing position and with a higher probability of voting for left-wing parties.  These effects are modest and are moderated by age: they are only found for young workers. This could be due to contextual reasons (in Spain political discourse has framed overeducation as a problem affecting young people) or to structural factors (status inconsistency is only politically relevant when the degree of structural crystallization of status positions is low).

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