Over-education and Gender Occupational Differences in Spain

García-Mainar, Inmaculada; García-Martín, Guillermo; Montuenga, Víctor M.

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“…Women might also end up in female-dominated occupations that traditionally require a lower educational and skills level, although the odds are reduced for higher educated women (García-Mainar, García-Martín, & Montuenga, 2014).…”

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Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain

Capsada-Munsech

2019

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This article focuses on the influence of social background on overeducation in Spain, understanding family socialisation as a source of knowledge and skills gain. The dramatic education expansion experienced in Spain in combination with a high percentage of low skilled jobs has promoted overeducation occurrence to a larger extent than in other OECD countries. Using PIAAC data results suggest that overeducation affects at least over a quarter of the working population. Younger and middle aged workers are more likely to be overeducated compared to the senior ones, while women are more prone to be overeducated than men. Workers whose mother has higher education are less likely to be overeducated compared to those whose mother has basic education, while father's education is practically irrelevant to predict workers' overeducation. Thus, mother's education is the most relevant social background indicator to predict overeducation, even when controlling for firm characteristics and skills level.

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Section: Empirical Evidence On Overeducationmentioning

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Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain

Capsada-Munsech

2019

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“…Between 1986 and 2007, almost nine million jobs were created in Spain, of which 5.5 million were for women, increasing female participation and employment rates by around 20 percentage points. More than 80 per cent of the increase in female employment was in the services sector, characterised by high flexibility in the working day, allowing for greater compatibility of family responsibilities with paid work, more interpersonal relationships, less physical effort, and directly related to the development of ICT (Dueñas et al, 2014; García-Mainar et al, 2015).…”

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Occupational Prestige and Gender-Occupational Segregation

García-Mainar

Montuenga

García-Martín

2017

Work, Employment and Society

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The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between the proportion of women working in an occupation and the prestige assigned to that occupation. Based on a representative sample of Spanish employees from the Spanish Quality of Work Life Survey, pooled-sample data (2007-2010) are used to show that occupations with larger shares of women present lower prestige, controlling for a set of objective individual and work-related variables, and self-assessed indicators of working conditions. Save for the male-dominated occupations (less than 20% women), the relationship between female share and occupational prestige is linear and negative, providing partial support to the devaluation theory. The results hold even after passing a battery of robustness checks.

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“…Traditional industries, such as the construction industry, are still reliant on physical and manual work. In some senses, Spain has become a paradigmatic example of what happens when the workforce is overeducated (Garcia‐Mainar, Garcia‐Martin, & Montuenga, ): Many educated workers are driven to accept low‐skill jobs in order to avoid unemployment or even emigration.…”

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The effect of human capital on occupational health and safety investment: An empirical analysis of Spanish firms

Núñez

Prieto

2018

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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This paper analyses how firms' human capital influences their investments in occupational health and safety (OHS). We argue that the incentive to protect workers by investing in OHS is a function of the stock of human capital. The empirical analysis was based on data from the official Working Conditions Spanish Survey on OHS management. Our sample was restricted to 1,472 firms from the manufacturing and construction industries. Our results show that firms that place more emphasis on training and have a multiskilled and innovative workforce invest more in OHS. However, having technological and design skills has no impact on the investment in OHS, presumably because these skills are widely available in the labour market. Finally, the analysis suggests that some abilities such as problem solving may be affected by informational asymmetries and therefore firms may suboptimally invest in protecting these capabilities.

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Over-education and Gender Occupational Differences in Spain

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain

Overeducation, skills and social background: the influence of parental education on overeducation in Spain

Occupational Prestige and Gender-Occupational Segregation

The effect of human capital on occupational health and safety investment: An empirical analysis of Spanish firms

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