Across the sea to Ireland: Return Atlantic migration before the First World War

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Are return migrants 'losers' who fail to adapt to the challenges of the host economy, and thereby exacerbate the brain drain linked to emigration? Or are they 'winners' whose return enhances the human and physical capital of the home country? These questions are the subject of a burgeoning literature. This paper analyze a new database culled from the 1911 Irish population census to address these issues for returnees to Ireland from North America more than a century ago. The evidence suggests that those who returned had the edge over the population as a whole in terms of human capital, if not also over those who remained abroad.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP19/29

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913 ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Subject: migration ; brain gain ; economic history ; Ireland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fernihough, Alan ; Ó Gráda, Cormac
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research
• (where): Dublin
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228177
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