@article{5c4ea95cf3d14762802ad5c439ca091f,
title = "Rural depopulation in a small open economy: Ireland 1856-1876",
abstract = "The paper asks whether Irish emigration between 1856 and 1876 was due to labor being pulled out of Ireland by higher wages abroad, or to labor being pushed off the land as a result of price shocks in international commodity markets favoring pasture over tillage. A computational general equilibrium model of the Irish agricultural sector is constructed and subjected to the wage and price shocks experienced by the economy over the period. The model suggests that all the rural depopulation occurring during this period was due to wage shocks (i.e., foreign labor demand), and none to commodity price shocks.",
author = "Kevin O'Rourke",
note = "Funding Information: * I am grateful to the following for their encouragement and advice: Iain Cockburn, Susan Collins, Louis Cullen, Mary Daly, Brad de Long, Larry Goulder, Tim Guirmane, Glenn Harrison, Tim Hatton, Elhanan Helpman, John James, Kala Krishna, Joel Mokyr, Cormac G{\textquoteright}Grada, Dan Raff, Thomas Rutherford, Peter Solar, U&an Stephenson, Jeffrey Williamson, .Ian Wooton, the Editor of this journal, two anonymous referees, and the participants at the Columbia University seminar on trade and development. The work was financed by a Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, a Jens Anbrey Westengaard Scholarship, and a grant from the Harvard University Economic History Workshop. The usual disclaimer applies.",
year = "1991",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/0014-4983(91)90002-Z",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "28",
pages = "409--432",
journal = "Explorations in Economic History",
issn = "0014-4983",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}