Abstract

PINZON FLECHAS, Paula Camila  and  ALVAREZ RIVADULLA, María José. THE BENEFICIARIES OF SER PILO PAGA IN THE LABOR MARKET: EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL MOBILITY, UNCERTAINTY AND RECURSIVITY. anal.polit. [online]. 2023, vol.36, n.107, pp.53-88.  Epub Feb 14, 2024. ISSN 0121-4705.  https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v36n107.112545.

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.

Keywords : Ser Pilo Paga; inequality; social mobility; high-quality higher education; discrimination; labor market; elitism; habitus clivé; social class.

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