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Across the Sea to Ireland: Return Atlantic Migration before the First World War

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  • Alan Fernihough

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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 analyzes 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.

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  • Alan Fernihough, 2019. "Across the Sea to Ireland: Return Atlantic Migration before the First World War," Working Papers 201929, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:201929
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    1. Cummins, Neil & Ó Gráda, Cormac, 2022. "The Irish in England," Economic History Working Papers 115497, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Cummins, Neil, 2024. "The Irish in England," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121184, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Colvin, Christopher L. & McLaughlin, Eoin, 2020. "Death, Demography and the Denominator: New Influenza-18 Mortality Estimates for Ireland," QUCEH Working Paper Series 2020-04, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
    4. Colvin, Christopher L. & McLaughlin, Eoin, 2021. "Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).

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    Keywords

    Migration; Brain gain; Economic history; Ireland;
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    JEL classification:

    • N - Economic History
    • N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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