Overeducation as Status Inconsistency: Effects on Job Satisfaction, Subjective Well-Being and the Image of Social Strati
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Overeducation as Status Inconsistency: Effects on Job Satisfaction, Subjective Well‑Being and the Image of Social Stratification Carmen Voces1 · Miguel Caínzos1 Accepted: 10 October 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract In this article, we aim to study the effects of the experience of overeducation, understood as a specific form of status inconsistency, in three areas: job satisfaction, subjective wellbeing, and the image of social stratification and the economic achievement process. For this, we use survey data from Spain and employ analytical procedures that have not previously been applied to this field (diagonal reference models). Thus, we make an empirical contribution (we test hypotheses concerning the impact of overeducation on specific types of attitudes) and a methodological contribution (we show the fruitfulness of applying to the study of overeducation a standard procedure for analysing the effects of social mobility and status inconsistency). We conclude that the experience of overeducation has some negative effects, but they are mostly confined to the sphere of work. The education/employment inconsistency reduces job and economic satisfaction, but does not affect overall subjective well-being or the image of social stratification. Keywords Overeducation · Educational mismatch · Job satisfaction · Subjective wellbeing · Social stratification · Status inconsistency
1 Introduction The purpose of this article is to study the effects of the experience of overeducation in three areas: job satisfaction, subjective well-being and the image of social stratification and the economic achievement process. Overeducation is an increasingly important phenomenon that is thought to have negative effects both at the individual and the societal levels. Our objective is to test this assumption using survey data and analytical procedures that have not previously been applied to this field. We used an objective measurement of overeducation (job analysis method) and an estimation procedure (diagonal reference models, * Miguel Caínzos [email protected] Carmen Voces [email protected] 1
Departamento de Ciencia Política y Sociología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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or DRMs) that were aligned with our starting point: a sociological conception of overeducation as a form of status inconsistency. With this, we make a two-fold contribution that is both empirical (testing hypotheses concerning the impact of overeducation on specific types of attitudes) and methodological (applying models that are canonical in the analysis of the effects of social mobility and status inconsistency to the study of overeducation). This work is based on data from Spain, a country with high prevalence of overeducation.
2 Overview, Background and Hypotheses Developed societies are known to share a secular trend of expanding schooling and increasing the educational level of the population. Though occupations that require high qualifications have increase
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