Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/198583 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP19/07
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure improved the living standards of those they left behind is hardly in doubt. Nevertheless, a voluminous literature on the selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and receiving country perspectives - has given rise to claims that migration generates both "brain drains" and "brain gains". On the one hand, positive or negative selection among emigrants may affect the level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both spur investment in schooling in source countries. This essay describes the history of emigration from Italy and Ireland during the Age of Mass Migration from these perspectives.
Subjects: 
Migration
Brain Drain
Brain Gain
Human Capital
Italy
Ireland
JEL: 
F22
J61
N33
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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