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 chairman, Professor John R. Commons, Professor John A. Fairlie, Dr. Robert F. Foerster, Professor Edward A. Miller, Professor Charles E. Merriam, Professor Frederick A. Ogg, Professor Carl Wittke, and the writer. The plan of co-operation between the old Committee and the new one transferred the ‘“‘machinization study” to the Social Science Research Council, under whose auspices it has been carried nearly to completion by Dr. Jerome. Finally, the Social Science Research Council has enabled the National Bureau to supplement the present study of short-period fluctuations of migration in the United States by a long-period in- vestigation of mass movements of mankind over the earth. Of course, the preparation of a broad sketch of the great world migra- tions of the past three or four generations requires the critical examination of many estimates of population movements for years and countries in which accurate records are lacking. It requires also the use of all the relevant statistics compiled in any part of the world. In short, it is a project which calls for close inter- national co-operation among the leading authorities upon population statistics. Dr. Walter F. Willcox, of Cornell University, is organ- izing this co-operation with the National Bureau, and, when the materials are assembled, he will prepare a report. Like the National Research Council, the Social Science Research Council asked and obtained financial support for its migration studies from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. Belonging as it does to two series of studies, Migration and Business Cycles is designed to cover a limited field. The major issues with which it deals are summed up in two questions: (1) To what extent are fluctuations in migration at- tributable to fluctuations in employment? (2) To what extent, in turn, are fluctuations in migration an ameliorating influence, and to what extent an aggravating factor, in employment and unemployment fluctuations? Dr. Jerome has sought to get the most definite answers to these questions which he can wring from the available records. Other phases of the problem he treats incidentally, if at all. Among the factors affecting migration which he passes over lightly are political conditions, steerage rates, and the methods adopted by steamship companies to stimulate passenger traffic. A scientific analysis of Q

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