Anna Cabré

Cambio migratorio y "reconversión territorial" en España

Basandose en los datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadistica para todo el territorio espanol durante la epoca de 1960 a1980 , se argumenta que la migracion ha sido el principal factor de diferenciacion de la poblacion espanola, a causa de su influencia directa sobre el volumen y la estructura, y su influjo indirecto sobre el crecimiento natural. Tambien se afirma que la disminucion y el cambio de direccion de los flujos migratorios desde 1975 han impedido la cristalizacion de algunas tendencias muy tempranas. Sin embargo, si las tendencias actuales se consolidan, se especula que habra un crecimiento en ciudades de tamano medio, turisticas, universitarias y zonas agricolas modernas, en detrimento de las grandes ciudades que cuentan con una agricultura e industria tradicionales. La interrupcion de la migracion, aunque sea causado por la crisis economica, puede ofrecer nuevas posibilidades muy beneficiosas

A bimodal crowdsourcing platform for demographic historical manuscripts

In this paper we present a crowdsourcing web-based application for extracting information from demographic handwritten document images. The proposed application integrates two points of view: the semantic information for demographic research, and the ground-truthing for document analysis research. Concretely, the application has the contents view, where the information is recorded into forms, and the labeling view, with the word labels for evaluating document analysis techniques. The crowdsourcing architecture allows to accelerate the information extraction (many users can work simultaneously), validate the information, and easily provide feedback to the users. We finally show how the proposed application can be extended to other kind of demographic historical manuscripts.

The apple never falls far from the tree: siblings and intergenerational transmission among farmers and artisans in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Abstract This article aims at studying the intergenerational transmission of status within farmers and artisans in the preindustrial area of Barcelona from a siblings’ attainment perspective in a context of impartible inheritance. The data source used are the Marriage License Books from the Barcelonas Diocese compiled in the Barcelona Historical Marriage Database, which for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provides a rich and continuous demographic and socioeconomic information through the use of the multilevel regression analysis. Our main findings points out the important family impact on the social fate of children. First-married children were the maximal inheritors of parental statuses in all social groups, especially for farmers and artisans, the former being more linked to ascription than the latter. However, farmers were found to be the group with the highest intergenerational occupational inheritance although artisans were who transmitted at most their social group. This divergent effect is due to the different strategies, or in a way a same strategy, used on non-first-married children to whom, families from the two social groups, when not able to transmit the same parental occupation, preferred to position the offspring in artisans’ careers thanks to a favourable context of a flourishing manufacturing industry at the countryside.