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2024-01-20

Los beneficiarios de ser pilo paga en el mercado laboral: experiencias de movilidad social, incertidumbre y recursividad

The Beneficiaries of Ser Pilo Paga in the Labor Market: Experiences of Social Mobility, Uncertainty and Recursivity

Palabras clave:

Ser Pilo Paga, desigualdad, movilidad social, educación superior de alta calidad, discriminación, mercado laboral, elitismo, habitus clivé, clase social (es)
Ser Pilo Paga, Inequality, social mobility, high-quality higher education, discrimination, labor market, elitism, habitus clivé, social class (en)

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  • Paula Camila Pinzón Flechas Universidad de los Andes
  • María José Álvarez Rivadulla University of the Andes

¿Logra la educación superior de alta calidad nivelar las desigualdades de base que existen entre estudiantes de distintos orígenes socioeconómicos? En este artículo comparamos la inserción al mercado laboral de los beneficiarios del programa Ser Pilo Paga y sus compañeros de clase alta que se graduaron en Derecho e Ingeniería de Sistemas de una universidad de élite. Los resultados muestran que los ‘pilos’ han experimentado un grado importante de movilidad social y están teniendo un impacto positivo en sus comunidades, pero reciben salarios más bajos que sus pares y experimentan emociones difíciles al enfrentarse al mercado laboral. Así mismo, revelan que las experiencias de los ‘pilos’ varían considerablemente de una carrera a otra, lo cual parece explicarse por la calidad del mercado laboral y la importancia que tienen el capital social y cultural en las profesiones escogidas.

Does high-quality higher education level the underlying inequalities that exist between students from different socioeconomic backgrounds? In this article we compare the insertion into the labor market of the beneficiaries of the Ser Pilo Paga program and their upper class classmates who graduated in Law and Systems Engineering from an elite university. The results show that the ‘pilos’ have experienced a significant degree of social mobility and are having a positive impact on their communities, but they get lower salaries than their peers and experience difficult emotions when facing the labor market. Likewise, they reveal that the experiences of the ‘pilos’ vary considerably from one career to another, which seems to be explained by the quality of the labor market and the importance of social and cultural capital in the chosen professions.

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