Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246494 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP21/21
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New York's Famine Irish had a greater range of employment opportunities open to them than perhaps commonly acknowledged, and that the majority were eventually able to move a rung or two up the American socioeconomic ladder, supporting the conviction of many Famine immigrants that the U.S. was indeed "the best country in the world.
Subjects: 
famine
migration
Ireland
New York
JEL: 
N0
N3
J6
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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