The Cream of the Crop? Geography, Networks, and Irish Migrant Selection in the Age of Mass Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5753286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dylan Shane Connor (0000-0002-8988-170X, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-175 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050718000682 |
| OpenAlex | W2891859900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 56 |
With more than 30 million people moving to North America during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), governments feared that Europe was losing its most talented workers. Using new data from Ireland in the early twentieth century, I provide evidence to the contrary, showing that the sons of farmers and illiterate men were more likely to emigrate than their literate and skilled counterparts. Emigration rates were highest in poorer farming communities with stronger migrant networks. I constructed these data using new name-based techniques to follow people over time and to measure chain migration from origin communities to the United States
Emigration · Mass migration · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Within Families, Across Borders
Anthropometric History
Emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States , Canada and Australia/New Zealand, 1870–1913
Leaving the Enclave
The Melting-Pot Problem? The Persistence and Convergence of Premigration Socioeconomic Status During the Age of Mass Migration
Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America
Globalization and the impact of the late 19th-century agrarian crisis on well-being
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage
What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration
Class Background, Reception Context, and Intergenerational Mobility
The problem of false positives in automated census linking
Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800–1939
Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters
In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition
Social Mobility Across the Pacific
Contextual Boundaries
Kinship and opportunity
Protestantism and human capital
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930
The sleeping giant who left for America
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks
Representation of the People
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, After They've Seen Paree?" World War I Overseas Military Service and Rural Americans' Postwar Occupational Mobility
Migrations canadiennes-françaises au 19e siècle
Socioeconomic selectivity of Japanese migration to the continental United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
Immigration in American Economic History
Immigrant Selection in the OECD
Cultural diversity and economic growth
When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much?
Some Thoughts on the Distribution of Earnings 1
The Impact of Emigration on Real Wages in Ireland, 1850–1914
Competition in the Promised Land
Poverty and the Poor Law in Ireland 1850-1914
Immigration Economics
Migration and the International Labor Market 1850-1939
Networks in the Modern Economy
Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
New Evidence on Emigrant Selection
Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration
An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units
Network strategies of nineteenth century Hesse-Cassel emigrants
Migrant self-selection
Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration
Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants
From the World to the Village and the Beginning to the End and after
Class Background, Reception Context, and Intergenerational Mobility
Playing with matches
The Wealth Accumulation of Antebellum European Immigrants to the U.S., 1840–60
Intermarriage in a divided society
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland
Which Irish men and women immigrated to the United States during the Great Famine migration of 1846–54
The American Irish
Irish Emigration in the Later Nineteenth Century
Immigrants and savers
Emigration and living standards in Ireland since the Famine
Emigrants and Exiles
The Vanishing Irish
A note on nineteenth-century Irish emigration statistics
International Migrations. Volume II. Interpretations
When Migrants Rule
The Great Migration in Black and White
Chain Migration and Information Networks
Who Crossed the Border? Self-Selection of Mexican Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century
Poverty, Religious Differences, and Child Mortality in the Early Twentieth Century
Age at Arrival and Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration
After the Famine
Primogeniture and Ultimogeniture in Rural Ireland
Family and Community in Ireland
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |