3 MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES
failure of emigration to increase markedly in this depression period
are probably the unsettled political and economic conditions in
Europe and the anticipation of the effect of restrictive immigration
laws in making it more difficult for those who left to return later.
CHART 31
SHOWING THE GREATER CYCLICAL FLUCTUATIONS IN THE
EMIGRATION OF UNSKILLED LABORERS AS COMPARED
Wit EmicranTs Having No OCCUPATION
Three-month moving average of index numbers, corrected for seasonal
variation, with 1913 monthly average= 100
200 - :
: |
1X) |
> 150 ——
:. 100 |S Zoi i: X Na 4 !
Lr pe I
WN 50 - —! :
C | :
$ m | ~ rn ar
$ 1909 | 1910 | 1911 I 9 | 1013 | 15% iA |
«Computed from monthly statistics compiled by the United States Bureau of Im-
migration.
CHAPTER SUMMARY
Briefly summarized, the evidence submitted in this chapter in-
dicates that with reference to the degree to which they are affected
by cyclical movements in industry, male migration is more sus-
ceptible than female; the immigrant and emigrant are somewhat
more susceptible than the nonimmigrant and nonemigrant groups;
and the unskilled immigrant and emigrant respond to industrial
conditions more readily than the skilled, professional, and “no oc-
cupation’ groups.
Further indications of the relative responsiveness to industrial
conditions of these several elements in migration will appear in the
chapter on Seasonal Movements, and the discussion of the relative
cyclical fluctuations of immigrants of various races and from various
countries appears in the following chapter.
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