Description
This is the replication package for "The cream of the crop? geography networks and Irish migrant selection" (Journal of Economic History).
Summary: During the Age of Mass
Migration (1850-1913), Ireland had a higher emigration rate than any other
major migrant sending country. This paper examines how emigrants from Ireland
compared to the people they left behind. Irish emigrants were
disproportionately drawn from poorer farming and less literature households
(negatively selected), and this negative selection was exacerbated by high
emigration from communities with established migrant networks.
,Smallest Geographic Unit: Poor Law Unions,
Summary: During the Age of Mass
Migration (1850-1913), Ireland had a higher emigration rate than any other
major migrant sending country. This paper examines how emigrants from Ireland
compared to the people they left behind. Irish emigrants were
disproportionately drawn from poorer farming and less literature households
(negatively selected), and this negative selection was exacerbated by high
emigration from communities with established migrant networks.
,Smallest Geographic Unit: Poor Law Unions,
| Date made available | Jan 1 2018 |
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| Publisher | ICPSR |