A história das migrações no Brasil é, com certeza, parte significante da história de formação e desenvolvimento do próprio país, e no neste caso migrar não se tornou uma doença, mas um mecanismo de poder buscar e lutar por melhores condições de vida. Se pudesse se retornar às...

Este trabalho analisa a evolução do número de famílias agrícolas e pluriativas, destacando por situação do domicílio, identificando tendências demográficas, e indicativos de fluxos migratórios recentes.-----------------------------------------------------------------...

As cidades são territórios privilegiados no que diz respeito à recepção de fluxos migratórios. Neste sentido, um dos aspectos que tem vindo a ser discutido quer pelos policymakers, quer pela comunidade académica, e até mesmo pela sociedade civil, relaciona-se com a localização...

This paper is based theoretically on the discussion presented by Florida, in particular two of his hypotheses. The first one states that the concentration of bohemians in an area signals an environment that attracts talented people. The second emphasizes that more tolerant societies are also...

Demographic transition creates a small window for countries to leverage their demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the population pyramid shows signs of maturity and bulges in...

In a path-breaking but largely overlooked study, published in a festchrift thirty years ago (1975), Herman Van der Wee provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from 1400 to 1700. To do so, he constructed a composite...

Globalisation and demography are the main forces modelling the development of societies at large and of each nation in particular.The paper aims to identify and synthetically present some factors of influence which triggered by the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century a...

In this paper, we test the hypothesis of a wage curve against a Phillips curve for Spain, within a dynamic framework that allows for both of these, and for more general alternatives. To this end, we use data from the European Community Household Panel, providing micro-information for the period...

The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...

Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely the current neighbourhood, but also the neighbourhood history of an individual that is important...