Albert Sabater

University of Girona | UDG · Business and Economic Sciences (Sociology Unit)

Artificial Intelligence can be used to understand how citizens interact in a society with the aim to work together towards a better world. The application of AI in this domain has shown immense potential, particularly in leveraging games as powerful tools to simulate individual roles within a society. This research endeavors to explore how sequence...

Age is an important known driver of residential sorting, yet little is understood about how age segregation is affected by housing unaffordability. This relationship is particularly pertinent given trends of increasing housing inequalities and population ageing, in Europe and elsewhere. Using harmonised population data for small areas linked with l...

In this paper, we examine the effects of unemployment, immigration and emigration on fertility variation during the Great Recession in Spain, while taking account of trans-spatial relationships. Using a spatial Durbin approach and panel data with observations from 50 Spanish provinces, we investigate the impact of an increase in unemployment on fer...

It is known that the education of significant others may affect an individual's mortality. This paper extends an emerging body of research by investigating the effect of having highly educated adult children on the longevity of older parents in Europe, especially parents with low educational attainment. Using a sample of 15,015 individuals (6,620 f...

The residential segregation literature has underplayed the significance of age in shaping the ethnic compositions of neighbourhoods. This paper develops an age group and age cohort perspective as a way to unpack summary measures of residential segregation. Harmonised small area data for England and Wales (2001–2011) are used as a case study to expl...

Residential age segregation in England and Wales has been growing in recent decades, with older and younger adults increasingly living in different neighbourhoods. Our research has found that age segregation is higher in areas where housing is least affordable, revealing a new concerning consequence of the housing crisis. The spatial separation of...

Resumen: Uno de los principales efectos de la crisis económica sobre los movimientos migratorios, ha sido el incremento de la emigración de población inmigrada y sus descendientes. Esta emigración agrupa movimientos de diferente índole: el retorno, la emigración de arrastre y la emigración a terceros países. El presente artículo aborda el estudio d...

BACKGROUND With the proportion of older adults in Europe expected to grow significantly over the next few decades, a number of pertinent questions are raised about the socio-spatial processes that underlie residential age segregation, especially in circumstances where it may be increasing. OBJECTIVE We present evidence on whether, and to what degre...

The crisis and the austerity policies driven by Spanish governments have had a significant effect on the dynamics of international migration processes. These changes mark the beginning of a new migratory phase in which Spanish emigration -without being a massive phenomenon- occupy a prominent place in the media and political agenda. Even though Spa...

Italy and Spain are two low fertility countries with similar welfare systems and, prior to the economic crisis of 2008, similar fertility trajectories. Since 2008 both have experienced decreases in fertility but the decline has been more dramatic in Spain. By ‘decomposing’ national fertility rates to examine both fertility change among population g...

The link between children’s health and the education of their parents, especially mothers, is now well established. However, far less is known about the possible influence of the educational attainment of adult children on the health of their parents. This study investigates the relationship between the education of adult children and the longevity...

In this study, using SHARE data we examined whether the education of adult children is associated with depressive symptoms (EURO-D caseness) for older immigrants and nonimmigrants in Europe. After controlling for possible confounders, we found that the education of adult children has independent effects on the mental health of their parents, and th...

The aim of this working paper is to promote dialogue between population researchers and housing researchers. We explore the complex inter-relationships between population change and the housing system, highlighting demographic perspectives and methodological issues. We draw on previous work and published data to consider age-related household trend...

During the past decade, the growing significance of EU migrants in Britain has attracted considerable media and policy attention. While the rhetoric and public policy debate has focused on national and regional levels, surprisingly, little is known about the emerging settlement patterns of EU migrants at the local level. This paper sheds some light...

In this chapter, we document levels and trends in residential segregation for Latin Americans and compare these with those from the African group (the second largest non-European immigrant group in Spain) following a decade of unprecedented growth through international migration. Segregation is measured using two traditional segregation indexes (th...

In this Chapter, we analyse occupational segregation of Latin American men and women in conjunction with their residential segregation at national level as well as for the metropolitan provinces of Madrid and Barcelona. Given the small sample sizes of occupational data at sub-national level, we employ Iterative Proportional Fitting to adjust these...

The well-educated tend to have lower levels of morbidity and mortality than their less well-educated counterparts. This positive association between education gradient and health outcomes is widely documented in literature. However, the age-specific pattern of this relationship remains largely contested in Europe and elsewhere. Single-country longi...

In this paper, we examine household residential mobility within Colombian municipalities and determine whether the factors that trigger residential movement vary across the country. Using Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and detailed data from the 2005 Census for all municipalities in Colombia, our analysis takes into account the spatial va...

This chapter uses a life-course perspective to analysis changes in ethnic segregation levels in Britain. The results show residential desegregation across ages and ethnic groups through the 1990s, especially for young adults. Common migration experiences shape desegregation since young adults from all backgrounds move towards diverse urban areas an...

Introduction This chapter presents analyses of changes in the level of ethnic residential segregation in Britain taking a life course perspective. Changes are separately analysed for age cohorts, ethnic groups and subnational areas. The results show ethnic residential desegregation in the 1990s across age cohorts and ethnic groups, and this is part...

One of the main effects of the current crisis is re-emerging phenomenon of Spanish emigration, especially since year 2011. This paper examines the growth of emigration from 2008 to 2012, using disaggregated data by origin, age, sex as well as geography detail at provincial level from the Residential Variation Statistics. The analyses distinguish be...

L’assentament territorial de la poblacio immigrada ha esdevingut una realitat tangible. La crisi economica ha aguditzat, a mes, l’interes respecte als nivells de concentracio d’aquesta poblacio. En aquest sentit, la formacio d’enclavaments etnics, entesos com a espais residencials amb una representacio significativa d’una poblacio estrangera o mes,...

Residential segregation remains one of the most visible division between different population groups and inherent in many modern societies. In Spain, the study of changes in the geographical distribution of the recently immigrated population has emerged as a key area to inform empirical debates about the nature of the new settlements in the various...

Aujourd’hui dépassés par les Latino-Américains, après avoir constitué le premier groupe national au sein de la population immigrée en Espagne, les Marocains ou leurs descendants vivant dans ce pays présentent une certaine tendance au départ. Une analyse statistique réalisée malgré les limites imposées par les données disponibles.

In this article, the recording of immigration of foreign-born in population registers is analysed for Andalusian municipalities from 1998 to 2010, as well as its temporal and spatial patterns. Using data from the Statistical Variation Statistics, the findings demonstrate how trends in immigration movements have been largely shaped by significant ch...

En este artículo se analiza la evolución del empadronamiento de la población extranjera en los municipios andaluces desde 1998 hasta 2010, así como sus patrones temporales y espaciales. A partir de los datos sobre altas padronales de las Estadísticas de Variaciones Residenciales (INE), se demuestra que su evolución se ha visto jalonada por signific...

The topic of regularization of immigrants has occupied a position high on the agenda in Spain and elsewhere. In this paper, we contribute to this particular issue by providing an evaluative case study in Spain using administrative data from the Province of Barcelona from 2005 to 2009, which allows survival analysis, the follow-up of migrants’ traje...

El objetivo de este trabajo es triple: 1) comparar el impacto de la Normalización de 2005, con el proceso de Arraigo instaurado en 2006; 2) analizar las trayectorias de los solicitantes de ambos programas después de su regularización; y 3) examinar la repesca de los solicitantes que no pudieron regularizar su estatus a través de la Normalización o...

El objetivo de este trabajo es triple: 1) comparar el impacto de la Normalización de 2005, con el proceso de Arraigo instaurado en 2006; 2) analizar las trayectorias de los solicitantes de ambos programas después de su regularización; y 3) examinar la repesca de los solicitantes que no pudieron regularizar su estatus a través de la Normalización o...

Resumen Desde 2006, se aplica en España un nuevo procedimiento para controlar la irregularidad, en el que se pasa de las regularizaciones masivas y extraordinarias a un proceso individual y permanente. En ese nuevo modelo, llamado «de arraigo», los inmigrantes en situación irregular pueden adquirir la autorización de residencia temporal a través de...

Since 2006, Spain has been applying a new procedure to control illegal immigrants. Instead of massive and extraordinary regularisations, they have now installed a new permanent and personal procedure. Through this new model, called rooting (arraigo) and processed by Provincial Governmental sub-delegations, irregular migrants can obtain temporary re...

Ethnicity data from successive censuses are used to compare population change. This paper shows that such comparisons are often impossible, wrong or misleading. Distortions become more severe as the scale of areal units becomes smaller. The paper outlines the four main sources of confusion and applies solutions for England and Wales for 1991-2001:...

Population estimates are used in a variety of applications including the monitoring of social trends, the distribution of financial resources and assessment of demand for housing, schooling, employment and other goods and services. In many countries the primary source informing population estimates is a national census. A census, however, is not a...

El principal objectiu d�aquest article és presentar una aproximació dels anomenats «empadronaments atípics» �individus que resideixen habitualment fora del municipi en el qual estan empadronats�, a través del seu còmput i de la seva distribució territorial a vint-itres comarques catalanes. En general, es pot dir que la història dels censos de pobla...

The main aim of this article is to yield an approximation of the so-called long-term absent de jure population, those individuals who usually live away from the municipality where they are officially registered as inhabitants, through their enumeration and geographical distribution in 23 Catalan regions. Although the history of censuses an d local...

Ethnicity data from successive censuses are used to compare population change. This paper shows that such comparisons are often impossible, wrong or misleading. Distortions become more severe as the scale of areal units become smaller. The paper outlines the four main sources of confusion and applies solutions for England and Wales for 1991-2001. T...

The 1991 and 2001 Censuses of Population in England and Wales provided comprehensive data of ethnic groups from national to local areas, thus stimulating analytical new research on the changing residential patterns of ethnic groups. However, such comparisons can be misleading if inconsistencies between censuses are not allowed for. This chapter add...

El principal objectiu d’aquest article és presentar una aproximació dels anomenats «empadronaments atípics» —individus que resideixen habitualment fora del municipi en el qual estan empadronats—, a través del seu còmput i de la seva distribució territorial a vint-itres comarques catalanes. En general, es pot dir que la història dels censos de pobla...

El empadronamiento, que depende de la administración municipal, se ha convertido en una pieza esencial del sistema estadístico español, tanto en el registro de los flujos como en el de los estocs de población, y muy especialmente de la visibilidad estadística de la población de nacionalidad extranjera. En este artículo se analiza la evolución de la...