Migration and business cycles

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Identifikator:: 1736236210

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-111544

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Jerome, Harry

Title:: Migration and business cycles

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: National Bureau of Economic Research

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 256 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. Seasonal fluctuations

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a. MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES knowledge, but for quantitative measures of seasonal changes in the numbers employed in construction, we have been forced to rely upon estimates pieced together from fragmentary data obtained from various sources. The constituents used in this computation, together with the final estimate, are shown in Chart 53. The upper section of this Chart (Fig. A) affords an opportunity to compare TABLE 57.—INDICES OF SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS IN CONSTRUCTION IMPLOYMENTa Average of the twelve months = 100 COMPOSITE INDICES BuiLping BuiLbing = El a AND STREEY IMPLOYMENT, Hicaway LABOR IN SB “wi on HicawAy Si MoNTH NEw York| © Bumping! ConstrUC-| ND BUILD- STATE SIN TION ING CON- STRUCTION A B C D Bo Jan. 79.7 75.2 . 76.6 7.2 66.7 Web... 86.6 65.9 77.4 210.0 67.1 Maps, 99.1 68.0 86.9 6.6 75.4 Apr. 100.5 84.7 94.8 | 33.8 86.1 May. ..... 106.7 99.5 105.1 116.9 106.8 ane. 0. 108 2 112.5 111.308 {151.4 117.0 July in 108.6 120.1 114.1 | 187.8 124.6 Ag. ola 109.0 133.5 113. 201 3 2 131.8 Sept... ..... 112.2 116.2 114.6 178.3 123.7 Oct... 104.1 117.8 110.0. 153.8 116.3 Nov... ii. 99.6 110.6 103.7 109.8 104.6 Geil 85.4 96.2 37.5 35.7 80.1 aComputed from the following data: Series A. Employment in New York building and street labor, 1902-1914 computed from percentage of trade union members unemployed at the end of each month. New York State Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, Annual Report and Bulletins. Series B. Percentage change in the number of employees engaged in the construction of buildings, January, 1922, to December, 1924, Wisconsin Labor Market, monthly issues. Scries C. Weighted average of Series A, Series B, and employment in 1922 as reported by contractors in 26 cities, read from curve in Seasonal Operations in the Construction Industries— Report of a Commitiee of the President's Conference on Unemployment, p. 51. Series D. Computed from statistics of the number of common laborers employed on Federal Aid projects in the fourteen states of the New England, Middle Atlantic and East North Central districts in 1922, 1923, and 1924, made available by the courtesy of Mr. J. G. McKay, Chief, Division of Highway Economics and Transport, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads; and from percentage changes in the number of employees engaged in the construction of highways in Wisconsin from January, 1922, to December, 1924, as reported in the Wisconsin Labor Market. Series E. An average of Series C and D, with weights of (6) assigned to building and (1) to highways. seasonal indices for the value of contracts awarded (Curve ‘“‘a’’), and the value of building permits (Curve “b”’), with estimates of em- ployment in building, computed from statistics of unemployment among trade union members in New York building and street labor, by months, and in Massachusetts building trades by quarters (Curves ‘“‘¢”’ and ‘‘d”, respectively).

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