“The Best Country in the World”: The Surprising Social Mobility of New York’s Irish-Famine Immigrants

The main dataset (\"ESB Mobility Database\") contains occupational data on 1,200 Irish immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in the Famine years and could be tracked for at least a decade. We also present the most up-to-date version of our Emigrant Savings Bank Depositor Database, which contains data on all 15,000 people who opened accounts at the bank from 1850 to 1858. Also provided are data from the 1855 New York State census documenting the occupations of New York's entire Irish-born population as well as datasets documenting the occupations held by New York's Irish immigrants one year and ten years after their arrival in America,本研究的核心数据集为ESB移民流动数据库（ESB Mobility Database），收录了1200名饥荒时期赴美爱尔兰移民的职业信息，且所有研究对象均被追踪时长不少于十年。本文还同步提供了更新至最新版本的移民储蓄银行储户数据库（Emigrant Savings Bank Depositor Database），该库涵盖了1850年至1858年间在该银行开立账户的全部15000名储户的相关数据。此外，本次发布的数据集还包含1855年纽约州人口普查数据，该数据完整记录了纽约州全体爱尔兰出生人口的职业情况；同时附带两套数据集，分别记录了纽约爱尔兰移民抵达美国后1年及10年时的职业状况。