Miguel González-Leonardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 276908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel González-Leonardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | González-Leonardo |
| SIGNATURE | GONZÁLEZ-LEONARDO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2508-7977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Evaluación de la consistencia de la nueva Estadística de Migraciones y Cambios de Residencia con la Estadística de Variaciones Residenciales y la Estadística de Migraciones
Spanish migration sources are used by national and international researchers and organisations. Thus, their consistency in time-series is crucial. In 2021, the Spanish National Statistics Institute replaced the old migration sources, Residential Variation Statistics (EVR) and Migration Statistics (EM), with the new Migration and Change of Residence Statistics (EMCR), which affected the historical series. In this paper, I analyse the consistency o…
Beyond the Immediate Impacts of Covid-19 on Internal Population Movements in Mexico: Facebook Data Reveal Urban Decay and Slow Recovery—A Research Note
Previous research has shown that internal mobility declined and outflows from large cities increased during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in many Global North countries. However, the longer term impacts of the pandemic on mobility levels and patterns across the rural–urban hierarchy and in Global South contexts remain poorly understood because of limited high-resolution data. Drawing on location data of Facebook users, we examine chan…
Assessing the Differentiated Impacts of Covid-19 on the Immigration Flows to Europe
The immediate effects of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility, and internal and international migration have been widely studied. Particularly, immigration to high-income countries declined in 2020. However, the persistence of these declines and the extent to which they have impacted different migration flows are yet to be established. Drawing on immigration flows from Eurostat and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time-series models, …
Where have Ukrainian refugees gone? Identifying potential settlement areas across European regions integrating digital and traditional geographic data
The escalation of conflict in Ukraine has triggered the largest refugee crisis in Europe since WWII. As of early April 2024, over 5.9 million people have fled Ukraine. Large‐scale efforts have been made to identify the major receiving countries. However, less is known about the subnational areas within host countries where refugees have migrated. Identifying these areas is key for the appropriate allocation of humanitarian aid. By combining digit…
Covid-19 y movimientos de población entre la jerarquía urbana en México. Un análisis utilizando datos digitales
Estudios previos en países del Norte Global han documentado el descenso de los movimientos internos de población durante la pandemia de COVID-19, acompañado del aumento de los desplazamientos desde las grandes ciudades hacia áreas menos densamente pobladas. Sin embargo, no hay evidencias consistentes sobre el efecto de la pandemia en los movimientos de población a través de la jerarquía urbana en el Sur Global. En esta investigación se utilizan d…
Demographic and labor force impacts of future immigration flows into Europe: Does an immigrant’s region of origin matter
Immigration has become a key demographic component in developed European nations. At the same time, many countries have seen an increase in immigration from non-European origins and more diversified migrant flows. In most population projections, however, immigrants are considered an almost homogenous population. This study utilizes a population microsimulation projection model (QuantMig-Mic) for 31 European countries that includes place of birth …
Understanding Population Decline Trajectories in Spain using Sequence Analysis
Population decline is a key contemporary demographic challenge. Previous work has measured the national extent of population decline, and we know that it is more acute in Japan and Eastern Europe and is set to accelerate across many industrialized countries. Yet, little is known about the population trajectories leading to current trends of depopulation and their underpinning demographic and contextual factors. To address this gap, we aim to iden…
Virtual special issue: Internal migration in times of Covid‐19
The COVID‐19 pandemic has potentially altered the system of population movement around the world. As COVID‐19 hit cities the hardest in the wake of the pandemic, apocalyptic headlines anticipated the ‘death of cities’. Yet, little was known about the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on cities and the ways it has shaped the patterns of internal population movement in and out of cities. This virtual special issue aims to consolidate our knowledge of…
A ‘donut effect’? Assessing housing transactions during Covid-19 across the Spanish rural–urban hierarchy
We assess if a 'donut effect' has occurred in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show a synchronized 30% drop in housing purchases during the national lockdown in 2020, followed by a significant increase from 2021 across the rural-urban continuum, including core cities, suburbs, towns and rural areas, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. We thus found no evidence of a ‘donut effect’ in Spain
The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020-31: A scenario approach
While considerable attention has been paid to the impact of Covid-19 on mortality and fertility, few studies have attempted to evaluate the pandemic's effect on international migration. We analyse the impact of Covid-19 on births, deaths, and international migration in Spain during 2020, comparing observed data with estimated values assuming there had been no pandemic. We also assess the consequences of three post-pandemic scenarios on the size a…
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Spain
Existing empirical work has analysed the impacts of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility and international migration. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the patterns of internal migration. Anecdotal reports of mass migration from large cities to less populated areas have emerged, but lack of data has prevented empirically assessing this hypothesis. Drawing on geographically granular administrative population re…
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the Covid-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where
During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, anecdotal evidence of a "rural revival" emerged mirroring the "urban exodus" hypothesis. Currently, we know that internal migration to rural areas increased in some countries during 2020, although not with the intensity speculated by the media. However, little is known about the attributes of rural areas attracting migrants, demographic composition of migration inflows, and if counterurbanisation move…
Educational selectivity of native and foreign-born internal migrants in Europe
It is well-established that internal migration is selective, particularly with respect to age, educational attainment, and nativity status. However, the interplay between education and immigrantsâ origin remains largely unknown. Thus, it is unclear how the
Interregional migration of human capital in Spain
While levels of internal mobility have been trending down in many advanced economies, the interregional migration rates of Spanish young adults have increased. This paper analyses the internal movements of the Spanish-born population aged 25–39 between NUTS-2 regions from 1992 to 2018, including sub-periods linked to the Spanish economic context. The analysis incorporates the urban–rural dimension within each region and the educational level of m…
Visualizing internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces during the Covid-19 pandemic
Drawing on register records from 2019 to 2021, we analyse the impact of COVID-19 on internal and international migration across the 50 Spanish provinces (NUTS-3 regions). Our results show that net-international migration declined in all the provinces during the pandemic, particularly in high-population-density areas. Certain depopulated provinces registered significant positive net-internal migration rates, while the most populous areas displayed…
Declive demográfico y envejecimiento en las capitales de provincia
El declive poblacional y el envejecimiento no solo afectan a las áreas rurales. El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar la dinámica demográfica de las capitales de provincia entre 2002 y 2019 y hacer una clasificación de ciudades en crecimiento, estancamiento y declive acorde al periodo de recuperación económica 2014-2019. Seguidamente, se analiza la contribución del saldo natural y diferentes tipos de migración a las tasas de crecimiento. Final…
El nuevo paradigma de las migraciones internas en España: Migrantes urbanos, más móviles y cualificados. El caso de Castilla y León
Tras décadas de relativa calma migratoria, la emigración, tanto la interregional como la internacional, se ha incrementado en las comunidades autónomas que tradicionalmente han sido expulsoras. A diferencia de etapas anteriores, cuando los emigrantes estaban escasamente formados y partían de ámbitos rurales, los actuales flujos de salida tienen un nivel de instrucción elevado y abandonan las ciudades de sus respectivas regiones. Este fenómeno ha …
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the Covid-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where
During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, anecdotal evidence of a "rural revival" emerged mirroring the "urban exodus" hypothesis. Currently, we know that internal migration to rural areas increased in some countries during 2020, although not with the intensity speculated by the media. However, little is known about the attributes of rural areas attracting migrants, demographic composition of migration inflows, and if counterurbanisation move…
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Spain
Existing empirical work has analysed the impacts of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility and international migration. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the patterns of internal migration. Anecdotal reports of mass migration from large cities to less populated areas have emerged, but lack of data has prevented empirically assessing this hypothesis. Drawing on geographically granular administrative population re…
Interregional migration of human capital in Spain
While levels of internal mobility have been trending down in many advanced economies, the interregional migration rates of Spanish young adults have increased. This paper analyses the internal movements of the Spanish-born population aged 25–39 between NUTS-2 regions from 1992 to 2018, including sub-periods linked to the Spanish economic context. The analysis incorporates the urban–rural dimension within each region and the educational level of m…
Virtual special issue: Internal migration in times of Covid‐19
The COVID‐19 pandemic has potentially altered the system of population movement around the world. As COVID‐19 hit cities the hardest in the wake of the pandemic, apocalyptic headlines anticipated the ‘death of cities’. Yet, little was known about the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on cities and the ways it has shaped the patterns of internal population movement in and out of cities. This virtual special issue aims to consolidate our knowledge of…
The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020-31: A scenario approach
While considerable attention has been paid to the impact of Covid-19 on mortality and fertility, few studies have attempted to evaluate the pandemic's effect on international migration. We analyse the impact of Covid-19 on births, deaths, and international migration in Spain during 2020, comparing observed data with estimated values assuming there had been no pandemic. We also assess the consequences of three post-pandemic scenarios on the size a…
Visualizing internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces during the Covid-19 pandemic
Drawing on register records from 2019 to 2021, we analyse the impact of COVID-19 on internal and international migration across the 50 Spanish provinces (NUTS-3 regions). Our results show that net-international migration declined in all the provinces during the pandemic, particularly in high-population-density areas. Certain depopulated provinces registered significant positive net-internal migration rates, while the most populous areas displayed…
A ‘donut effect’? Assessing housing transactions during Covid-19 across the Spanish rural–urban hierarchy
We assess if a 'donut effect' has occurred in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show a synchronized 30% drop in housing purchases during the national lockdown in 2020, followed by a significant increase from 2021 across the rural-urban continuum, including core cities, suburbs, towns and rural areas, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. We thus found no evidence of a ‘donut effect’ in Spain
Where have Ukrainian refugees gone? Identifying potential settlement areas across European regions integrating digital and traditional geographic data
The escalation of conflict in Ukraine has triggered the largest refugee crisis in Europe since WWII. As of early April 2024, over 5.9 million people have fled Ukraine. Large‐scale efforts have been made to identify the major receiving countries. However, less is known about the subnational areas within host countries where refugees have migrated. Identifying these areas is key for the appropriate allocation of humanitarian aid. By combining digit…
Educational selectivity of native and foreign-born internal migrants in Europe
It is well-established that internal migration is selective, particularly with respect to age, educational attainment, and nativity status. However, the interplay between education and immigrantsâ origin remains largely unknown. Thus, it is unclear how the
El nuevo paradigma de las migraciones internas en España: Migrantes urbanos, más móviles y cualificados. El caso de Castilla y León
Tras décadas de relativa calma migratoria, la emigración, tanto la interregional como la internacional, se ha incrementado en las comunidades autónomas que tradicionalmente han sido expulsoras. A diferencia de etapas anteriores, cuando los emigrantes estaban escasamente formados y partían de ámbitos rurales, los actuales flujos de salida tienen un nivel de instrucción elevado y abandonan las ciudades de sus respectivas regiones. Este fenómeno ha …
Declive demográfico y envejecimiento en las capitales de provincia
El declive poblacional y el envejecimiento no solo afectan a las áreas rurales. El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar la dinámica demográfica de las capitales de provincia entre 2002 y 2019 y hacer una clasificación de ciudades en crecimiento, estancamiento y declive acorde al periodo de recuperación económica 2014-2019. Seguidamente, se analiza la contribución del saldo natural y diferentes tipos de migración a las tasas de crecimiento. Final…
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Spain
Existing empirical work has analysed the impacts of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility and international migration. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the patterns of internal migration. Anecdotal reports of mass migration from large cities to less populated areas have emerged, but lack of data has prevented empirically assessing this hypothesis. Drawing on geographically granular administrative population re…
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the Covid-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where
During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, anecdotal evidence of a "rural revival" emerged mirroring the "urban exodus" hypothesis. Currently, we know that internal migration to rural areas increased in some countries during 2020, although not with the intensity speculated by the media. However, little is known about the attributes of rural areas attracting migrants, demographic composition of migration inflows, and if counterurbanisation move…
Educational selectivity of native and foreign-born internal migrants in Europe
It is well-established that internal migration is selective, particularly with respect to age, educational attainment, and nativity status. However, the interplay between education and immigrantsâ origin remains largely unknown. Thus, it is unclear how the
Interregional migration of human capital in Spain
While levels of internal mobility have been trending down in many advanced economies, the interregional migration rates of Spanish young adults have increased. This paper analyses the internal movements of the Spanish-born population aged 25–39 between NUTS-2 regions from 1992 to 2018, including sub-periods linked to the Spanish economic context. The analysis incorporates the urban–rural dimension within each region and the educational level of m…
Visualizing internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces during the Covid-19 pandemic
Drawing on register records from 2019 to 2021, we analyse the impact of COVID-19 on internal and international migration across the 50 Spanish provinces (NUTS-3 regions). Our results show that net-international migration declined in all the provinces during the pandemic, particularly in high-population-density areas. Certain depopulated provinces registered significant positive net-internal migration rates, while the most populous areas displayed…
Demographic and labor force impacts of future immigration flows into Europe: Does an immigrant’s region of origin matter
Immigration has become a key demographic component in developed European nations. At the same time, many countries have seen an increase in immigration from non-European origins and more diversified migrant flows. In most population projections, however, immigrants are considered an almost homogenous population. This study utilizes a population microsimulation projection model (QuantMig-Mic) for 31 European countries that includes place of birth …
Understanding Population Decline Trajectories in Spain using Sequence Analysis
Population decline is a key contemporary demographic challenge. Previous work has measured the national extent of population decline, and we know that it is more acute in Japan and Eastern Europe and is set to accelerate across many industrialized countries. Yet, little is known about the population trajectories leading to current trends of depopulation and their underpinning demographic and contextual factors. To address this gap, we aim to iden…
Virtual special issue: Internal migration in times of Covid‐19
The COVID‐19 pandemic has potentially altered the system of population movement around the world. As COVID‐19 hit cities the hardest in the wake of the pandemic, apocalyptic headlines anticipated the ‘death of cities’. Yet, little was known about the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on cities and the ways it has shaped the patterns of internal population movement in and out of cities. This virtual special issue aims to consolidate our knowledge of…
A ‘donut effect’? Assessing housing transactions during Covid-19 across the Spanish rural–urban hierarchy
We assess if a 'donut effect' has occurred in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show a synchronized 30% drop in housing purchases during the national lockdown in 2020, followed by a significant increase from 2021 across the rural-urban continuum, including core cities, suburbs, towns and rural areas, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. We thus found no evidence of a ‘donut effect’ in Spain
The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020-31: A scenario approach
While considerable attention has been paid to the impact of Covid-19 on mortality and fertility, few studies have attempted to evaluate the pandemic's effect on international migration. We analyse the impact of Covid-19 on births, deaths, and international migration in Spain during 2020, comparing observed data with estimated values assuming there had been no pandemic. We also assess the consequences of three post-pandemic scenarios on the size a…
Where have Ukrainian refugees gone? Identifying potential settlement areas across European regions integrating digital and traditional geographic data
The escalation of conflict in Ukraine has triggered the largest refugee crisis in Europe since WWII. As of early April 2024, over 5.9 million people have fled Ukraine. Large‐scale efforts have been made to identify the major receiving countries. However, less is known about the subnational areas within host countries where refugees have migrated. Identifying these areas is key for the appropriate allocation of humanitarian aid. By combining digit…
Covid-19 y movimientos de población entre la jerarquía urbana en México. Un análisis utilizando datos digitales
Estudios previos en países del Norte Global han documentado el descenso de los movimientos internos de población durante la pandemia de COVID-19, acompañado del aumento de los desplazamientos desde las grandes ciudades hacia áreas menos densamente pobladas. Sin embargo, no hay evidencias consistentes sobre el efecto de la pandemia en los movimientos de población a través de la jerarquía urbana en el Sur Global. En esta investigación se utilizan d…
Evaluación de la consistencia de la nueva Estadística de Migraciones y Cambios de Residencia con la Estadística de Variaciones Residenciales y la Estadística de Migraciones
Spanish migration sources are used by national and international researchers and organisations. Thus, their consistency in time-series is crucial. In 2021, the Spanish National Statistics Institute replaced the old migration sources, Residential Variation Statistics (EVR) and Migration Statistics (EM), with the new Migration and Change of Residence Statistics (EMCR), which affected the historical series. In this paper, I analyse the consistency o…
Beyond the Immediate Impacts of Covid-19 on Internal Population Movements in Mexico: Facebook Data Reveal Urban Decay and Slow Recovery—A Research Note
Previous research has shown that internal mobility declined and outflows from large cities increased during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in many Global North countries. However, the longer term impacts of the pandemic on mobility levels and patterns across the rural–urban hierarchy and in Global South contexts remain poorly understood because of limited high-resolution data. Drawing on location data of Facebook users, we examine chan…
Assessing the Differentiated Impacts of Covid-19 on the Immigration Flows to Europe
The immediate effects of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility, and internal and international migration have been widely studied. Particularly, immigration to high-income countries declined in 2020. However, the persistence of these declines and the extent to which they have impacted different migration flows are yet to be established. Drawing on immigration flows from Eurostat and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time-series models, …
Geography (15 works) · Demography (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Pandemic (8 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (7 works)