Ana Vinuela

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Oviedo

The spatial concentration of immigrants across and within European countries is highly heterogeneous, tending to reinforce the internal spatial disparities within EU Member States and regions. Although European regional data show that the highest levels of foreign‐born population concentration correspond to those NUTS2 regions that contain a large...

In this paper we propose a methodology to obtain social indicators at a detailed spatial scale by combining the information contained in census and sample surveys. Similarly to previous proposals, the method proposed here estimates a model at the sample level to later project it to the census scale. The main novelties of the technique presented are...

In the EU, territorial inequalities in terms of income and poverty have been broadly analysed at the national and regional levels. However, mainly due to the lack of reliable data, very little attention has been paid to territorial inequalities within European regions, i.e., at a more local level, such as in metropolitan areas, cities or neighbourh...

The objective of this work is to study employment growth and its determinants in Spain at a high degree of spatial disaggregation. The impossibility of obtaining GDP data at the local scale makes this a particularly interesting issue, as employment growth can be used as a proxy for local economic growth—and can therefore be expected to provide some...

In the 2000s, and with natural population growth rates close to zero, Spain experienced an inflow of almost 5 million immigrants. These new Spanish residents did not tend to locate evenly across the territory and contributed to putting pressure on the already large spatial population imbalances between cities and rural areas, between the coast and...

During the last two decades, the Spanish economy has been growing both in terms of employment and economic activity, and the spatial distribution of both is very uneven. At a high level of disaggregation, when observing figures of local employment growth we find major changes between 1991 and 2001 and 2001–2011 decades. The aim of this paper is to...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The maps on the right-hand side in Fig. 1 have the wrong titles. NUTS 2 regions should be Local Labour Markets. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature

Although economic data is increasingly available for almost any topic, there is still a dearth of data at very high levels of spatial disaggregation. GDP data (total or per capita) is available for the European NUTS II regions and the Spanish National Statistics Office (INE) regularly publishes such information at the NUTS III level (which, in the...

Spain is an ageing country, and the present demographic burden is not homogeneously distributed across space. Will the aged population be evenly distributed in the future, or will disparities broaden over time? Identifying the spatial patterns of the aged population concentration and the existence of a demographic burden convergence/divergence proc...

Formal modeling of local population growth has usually tended to focus on identifying patterns that are presumed to hold universally. However, as Glaeser, Ponzetto, and Tobio highlighted, these laws are reliable for long-term dynamics; but in some moments or for some places, the balance between the different factors may change, giving rise to diffe...

Even though there is a general consensus in the regional economics literature about the relevance of agglomeration economies in the distribution of economic activity, analyses of regional differences in employability in Spain have found limited empirical evidence about the role played by population concentrations. Our hypothesis in this paper is th...

Over the last 100 years, Urban and Regional Economics has grown spectacularly as an applied field of Economic Science, using the terminology proposed by Schumpeter in 1954. This discipline has been capable of providing theories and analysis that go far beyond its strict goals. Some of the most interesting economic theories of the past 20 years have...

The spatial dynamics of dispersion/concentration of economic activity can be explained by opposing centripetal and centrifugal forces. Neoclassical economics provides a precise explanation for centrifugal processes but it was not until the advent of the New Economic Geography that the existence and workings of centripetal forces were understood. Th...

In the last 20 years Spain has experienced a significant increase of internal mobility, in particular from the peripheral to the core regions, as well as an extraordinary inflow of workers coming from all around the world, which also tend to settle down in the core regions. Using the analytical regions proposed by Polèse et al. (in Eur Urban Reg St...

Las dinámicas de dispersión/concentración de la actividad económica a lo largo del espacio se explican por la oposición de fuerzas centrípetas vs. centrífugas. La Economía Neoclásica señaló con precisión las causas de los procesos centrífugos pero fue necesario esperar a la Nueva Geografía Económica para entender completamente la existencia y funci...

Internal homogeneity and also heterogeneity between the regions are both desirable properties for a better understanding of the local labor markets and for increasing the efficiency of any industrial policy applied at local level. However, studies of the labor markets that include a spatial dimension are commonly limited to administrative rather th...

The probability of being employed varies depending on several factors. Many of these are related to personal characteristics such as educational level, age, gender, or number and age of children. Nevertheless, other factors may be relevant, in particular the geographical environment. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relevance of urban si...