El MICIU ha concedit 6 nous projectes I+D “Generación de Conocimiento” a investigadors/es del CED
Els 6 nous projectes i els respectius investigadors/es principals són:
Diederik Boertien; Giulia Corti.- Relationship change in Spain: longer and more diverse? (RELOJ)
Resum.- The purpose of this project is to provide a novel picture of romantic relationships and their dynamics in Spain. Understanding how romantic relationships are changing is an essential first step towards understanding demographic change, gender inequality and other social inequalities in society.Despite the importance of romantic relationships, there are several essential questions to which we do not know the answers such as: do relationships last longer today than in the past? Is social background becoming more important in partner selection? The project will generate essential knowledge about romantic relationships, with a focus on the Spanish context, with comparisons with other European countries.
Iñaki Permanyer; Aïda Solé-Auró (UPF).- Dynamics of Health and Survival: Leveraging Unique Population Registers to Address New Challenges and Old Debates (HEALTHDYNAMICS)
Resum.- The HEALTHDYNAMICS project aims to investigate the evolution of health and mortality dynamics in Catalonia using a source of data that has been largely underused: the population health and mortality registers covering the entire Catalan population. With this powerful source of information, we aim to explore one of the most pressing challenges that the Spanish population must face in the coming decades: ensure that longevity continues to increase together with improved population health. More specifically, some of the research questions that the project pretends to address: 1. Are longevity gains accompanied by commensurate morbidity declines?; 2. What is the reason why younger generations experience worse morbidity outcomes than previous generations did at the same age? Is it due to a worsening of the underlying health distribution? To an increasing tendency towards overdiagnosis among health professionals? To changes in individuals health-seeking behavior or to public health prevention programs (e.g., screening campaigns)?, or 3. What are the drivers of the gender healthsurvival paradox? To what extent are they driven by individual, behavioral, generational, exposures to health risks, or biological factors? How do institutional contexts and public health policies shape gender health inequalities? To attain this ambitiou research goal, one needs micro-level data sources combining information about individuals’ health/morbidity trajectories and the corresponding mortality outcomes in large numbers. For this reason, in this project we plan to create the HEALIN database. In a nutshell, this database will include information about primary care diagnostics, hospitalisation and all-cause mortality for all individuals living in Catalonia for all years from 2005 onwards, together with basic socio-economic (e.g., income and occupation), education, and nationality information. To do so, we plan to work with the Department of Health in Catalonia, which is very much interested in collaborating in this endeavour.
Sergi Vidal; Riccardo Valente.- Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and Europe (HOMEINEQ)
Resum.- HOMEINEQ examines how spatial mobility and housing trajectories over the life course shape opportunities and inequalities in Spain, within a comparative European perspective. It breaks new ground by advancing two complementary contributions. First, it develops an integrated life-course framework that treats housing and mobility as interdependent processes embedded in families, places, and institutions. Second, it investigates how demographic change, intergenerational dynamics, socio-spatial inequality, and housing financialisation influence these trajectories. Four interconnected objectives guide the research: documenting mobility and housing pathways, analysing intergenerational transmission, examining residential exclusion and territorial inequality, and assessing the role of housing finance and debt. Using innovative survey and register data, the project aims to provide evidence that informs policies promoting equal opportunities, housing security, and social inclusion.
Albert Esteve; Juan Galeano (projecte adscrit al Departament de Sociologia, UAB).- Los arreglos residenciales de la población española: dimensiones de cambio e implicaciones sociales (LivArr).
Resum: El proyecto LivArr investiga la transformación de los arreglos residenciales en España, en particular su estructura, determinantes e implicaciones. Con la población de España acercándose a los 50 millones, las tendencias demográficas – como, por ejemplo, la disminución de la fecundidad, el aumento de la esperanza de vida, el retraso en la formación de familias y la migración- están diversificando la estructura de los hogares. Estos cambios tienen importantes implicaciones sociales tanto en la demanda de vivienda, el cuidado, los roles de género y/o los patrones de consumo. El proyecto LivArr tiene tres objetivos principales: (1) Analizar la estructura y la transformación de los arreglos residenciales desde una perspectiva individual, la cual nunca se ha llevado a cabo en España. (2) Examinar los determinantes a nivel macro (demográficos, económicos y culturales) y micro (edad, género, educación y migración) de estos cambios. (3) Evaluar sus implicaciones en la demanda de vivienda, el uso del tiempo y las dinámicas de cuidado.
Antonio López Gay (projecte adscrit al Departament de Geografia, UAB).- El auge de la migración internacional cualificada en España: trayectorias, territorios y transformaciones urbanas (LAVIDAGLOBAL)
Resum: LAVIDAGLOBAL tiene por objetivo estudiar el reciente aumento de la migración internacional altamente cualificada en España y analizar cómo este fenómeno se ha consolidado como un componente estructural de los sistemas urbanos españoles, influyendo en los patrones de asentamiento, en las geografías cotidianas y en la cohesión social. El proyecto examinará la evolución y distribución territorial de estos flujos, desde la escala nacional hasta la intraurbana, prestando especial atención a las trayectorias residenciales, laborales y de curso de vida de esta población, así como a sus procesos de integración, pertenencia y construcción de redes sociales. Asimismo, analizará la relación entre esta nueva movilidad internacional y las transformaciones urbanas recientes, incluyendo los mercados de vivienda tensionados, la gentrificación transnacional y los marcos normativos orientados a la atracción de talento. Para ello, LAVIDAGLOBAL combina un enfoque multiescalar y una metodología mixta basada en el análisis de registros administrativos, fuentes estadísticas y una encuesta específica, complementados con entrevistas, grupos focales y etnografías virtuales. Esta estrategia permitirá generar evidencia robusta sobre un fenómeno todavía escasamente estudiado y proporcionar conocimiento útil para orientar el diseño de políticas públicas adaptadas a los retos derivados de la creciente movilidad internacional altamente cualificada.
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora; Gabriel Brea-Martinez (projecte adscrit al Departament d’Estudis d’Arts i Humanitats, UOC).- Social Mobility and Socioeconomic Inequality in the Long Run: Integrating New Data Sources and AI to Rethink Demographic and Family Mechanisms in Social Reproduction (15th–20th Centuries) (MOB – INEQUAL)
Resum.- The MOB-INEQUAL project seeks to advance our understanding of the demographic and social mechanisms through which individuals and families have historically fostered social mobility and mitigated underlying economic inequalities embedded in processes of biological and social reproduction from a gender perspective, while integrating in a novel way AI to enhance analytical depth and methodological innovation. In this regard, the project aims to advance knowledge on equality of opportunity, a key principle of contemporary welfare systems, at a time when socioeconomic inequalities have risen again since the 1980s and gender disparities persist. This focus is particularly relevant in the Spanish context, where the social elevator increasingly appears to be broken. Likewise, a central theoretical innovation of this proposal is the repositioning of the family, particularly the historical role of women, as key agents of social change, a role often overshadowed by institutional, economic, or structural explanations. This reframing is supported by a substantial body of research showing that both intergenerational and intragenerational transmission of demographic and social behaviours constitute fundamental mechanisms in the formation and reproduction of past and present societies. To achieve these objectives from a long-term perspective that is necessary but far from common, the project applies ad-hoc AI-based techniques to the construction and statistical analysis of integrated individual-level marriage certificates, civil registers, census data, and tax records spanning the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, compiled for the first time in Southern Europe, while citizen participation will play a key role in the training and validation of AI models. Simultaneously, the project employs Natural Language and Image Processing to analyse large corpora of newspaper advertisements and photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, enabling the development of alternative measures of socioeconomic status that capture contextual factors, such as marriage and labour-market conditions, that shaped individual behaviour. In this sense, the project proposes the study of how role models and peer networks shape social mobility, either through compensatory or multiplier effects, and how the timing and spatial proximity of exposure to them amplifies individuals’ chances of mobility, while also introducing an innovative analysis of gendered family strategies to foster mobility through naming practices and assortative mating. As well, it seeks to determine the demographic consequences of social mobility by assessing how experiencing mobility may lead to divergent outcomes in fertility, marriage timing, and health.