Crisis, education and precariousness-affl uence. The role of education in the Spanish living conditions
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the influence of education achievement (cultural capital) in the processes of precariousness-affluent of Spanish population from the years after the crisis of 1990 to the beginning of the hardest years of the current crisis. From the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) data and the SILC (Living Conditions Survey) of Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) four indicators are built to measure the evolution of job labour, income, health and housing and their distribution according to different demographic variables. Studying different living conditions in times of growth and economic crisis it is intended to test the hypothesis that more education means more protection. By the use of multivariate analysis we attempt to determine the level of impact of cultural capital, its scope, its evolutionary dynamics and, above all, whether positive or negative effects are being expanded or deceleration. The result is a double contribution: on the methodological side consisting of the construction of the indicators; on the other hand, the results, with whom it is possible to question some generalizations about the role of education in contemporary societies.
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