Overeducation in Mexico: Promoter or Inhibitor of Exclusion from Work?

Abstract

The great educational expansion of the Mexican population has been accompanied by the increase in the prevalence of overeducation among its workers and very low rates of creation for protected employment. In this article, we examine the profile of overeducated workers and how it intervenes in the process of exclusion from productive, protected and adequately paid employment in the Mexican labor market. Based on data from the National Survey on Occupation and Employment (ENOE) from the third quarter of 2019, we estimate sequential logit models on the probability of activity, occupation, overeducation and precariousness. The findings identify population profiles associated with overeducation and within it, precariousness. It is also noted that overeducation works for certain groups as a promoter of precariousness, but in no case as an inhibitor.