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 II. Significant features of migration

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CHAPTER 11 SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF MIGRATION Purpose of Chapter. For readers who have not given special attention to the immigra- tion problem, it may be helpful to review briefly the characteristic phases of the flow of population to our shores, and particularly to stress those features which have a significant bearing on the par- ticular inquiry to which we have set ourselves. In the first place, let us take note of the chief sources of information and the term- inology to be used in the following pages. SOURCES, TERMINOLOGY, AND COMPREHENSIVENESS OF MIGRATION STATISTICS: Sources. Except where otherwise specified, all tables and other statistics in this monograph refer to immigration into, or emigration from, the United States. Official annual statistics of immigration are first available with the year ending September 30, 1820; quarterly figures, with the year ending June 30, 1858; and monthly figures, with the year ending June 30, 1889. However, as noted below, the meaning and comprehensiveness of these statistics have varied from time to time. From 1820 to 1874 immigration statistics were gathered by the Department of State; for the period 1867 to June, 1895, by the U. S. Bureau of Statistics; and from July, 1892, to date, by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration. In the four years in which the data of the Bureau of Statistics and of the Bureau of Immigration overlap, there is a considerable discrepancy in the numbers reported (see footnote to Table 1). The smaller figures, which are those now published as official, were compiled by the Bureau of Immigration. The reason for this discrepancy is not stated in the official publica- tions of the departments concerned nor is it apparent upon examina- tion of the data. It may be that the larger figures published by the 1See, also, the footnotes to Table 1 and to Tables I and II in the Appendix. 20

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