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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FOREWORD of the Department of Anthropology in the American Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Chairman of the Re- search Information Service of the National Research Council, and also of the Committee. In preparation for their work, the Committee called a conference of anthropologists, biologists, economists, psychologists and socio- logists interested in various aspects of migration. After surveying the field and considering numerous suggestions, the Committee decided that it could render the best service by promoting work upon certain fundamental problems which must be solved as pre- liminaries to the scientific study of the characteristics, causes and effects of migration. Each problem was referred to a group of technically qualified investigators. The various groups worked in severalty, by whatever methods were best adapted to their tasks. Meanwhile the Committee gave the program as a whole such unity as was possible, by holding occasional conferences, in which all the cooperating investigators took part. The scope of the work under- taken is indicated by the following partial list of topics: the pos- sibility of developing reliable measures of the psychological charac- teristics of different ethnic groups, the influence of race upon pa- thology, the behavior of physical traits in race intermixture, and the sources of information concerning the causes of migration available in Europe. To defray the expenses incident to these in- quiries, the National Research Council obtained a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. Among the problems which the Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration thought important to investigate was the “Shortage and surplus of labor in the United States in its relations to immigration and emigration.” This problem was referred to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before it received this request to cooperate in the migration pro- gram, the National Bureau had begun a series of researches into the phenomena of business cycles. One report within this field, made at the request of a committee of President Harding's Con- ference on Unemployment, had already been published under the title, Business Cycles and Unemployment. A second report was on the point of appearing—Employment, Hours and Earnings in Pros- perity and Depression, by Dr. Willford I. King, Dr. Leo Wolman’s monograph on The Growth of American Trade Unions, 1880-1923, was then well under way, and has since been printed. Dr. Frederick 6

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