Domestic migrations in Spain during its first industrialization, 1840s-1870s

Carlos Santiago Caballero
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IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola

Abstract: Using an original microeconomic database with information for around 200,000 individuals, this paper creates new estimates of internal migrations in Spain in a key moment of its economic history. Our analysis shows that internal migrations were not a linear process including both periods of stagnation and also rapid growth, and that the 1850s were a decade of surprising high mobility in the absence of modern transportation. We also conclude that the rise in mobility was geographically asymmetrical with traditional urban centers losing ground against the rise of Madrid and Barcelona. The modernization of the country also had significant social impacts with the migratory gender gap being significantly reduced prior to 1870. An analysis of the determinants of internal migrations suggests that traditional push and pull factors described by the literature in the early twentieth century seem to be also behind the early migrations of the mid nineteenth century.

Keywords: Migrations; Spain; Gender; Gap; Industrialisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N33 N94 O14 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-04-28
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