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.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The pre-war quarter century : 1890-1914

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1 MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES in the number unemployed. On the whole, in these three-month periods, the volume of net immigration is much smaller than the contemporaneous changes in the number unemployed. TABLE 27.—NET ALIEN MALE MIGRATION AND CHANGE IN NUMBER EMPLOYED IN NON-AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS: DEPRESSION OF 1911-1912 NET MIGRATION OF ALIEN MALES [HART'S ESTIMATE OF NUMBER UNEM- . PLOYED IN NON-AGRICULTURAL OC- (THOUSANDS) CUPATIONS (MILLIONS)P YEAR - — : > = AND HANGE IN MONTH In Sr ToTAL In 3 monTHS CHANGE SPECIFIED | CED 2 AFTER SPECIFIED ENDING IN AFTER MONTH | % - G Dre. 1910 | MONTH sPECIFIED DEC. 1910 Biri MONTH Bo C D E F 1911 Jan. 4.0 PR 4.0 3.2 xe 41.1 Feb. | 14.0 med 18.0 3.5 ad 1-104 Mar. | 41.9 59.9 59.9 3.1 +1.0 —+1.0 Apr. 51.9 107.7 | 111.8 2.9 —0.3 | 40.8 May 37.6 131.3 149.3 2.7 —0.8 -+0.6 June 11.5 101.0 160.9 2.3 —0.3 +0.7 July ' 414.5 34.6 146.4 3.0 +0.1 +0.9 Aug. 43.5 4116.5 142.8 2-9 —+0.2 +0.8 Sept. 3.0 415.0 145.8 2.3 | ~0.5 +0.92 Oct. 5.8 5.2 151.6 2.1 —0.9 .0 Nov. d 19.7 4 10.9 131.9 24 —0.5 +0.3 Dec. a4 19.5 da 33.4 112.5 2.9 +0.6 +0.8 1912 Jan. 5.0 a 34.1 117.5 35 +1.4 +1.4 Feb. 14.4 d il 131.9 3.7 +1.3 +1.6 Mar. 48.6 68.0 180.4 3.2 +0.3 +1.1 Apr. 56.7 119.6 237.1 2.9 | 0.6 10.8 May 60.7 166.0 297.8 27 —1.0 —+0.6 June 35.5 152.9 333.3 2 —0.4 40.7 July 29.4 125.6 362.7 oo —0 1 +0.7 Aug. 30.1 95.0 392.8 : +0.2 sFrom data in Table 24. Columns B and C computed from A. bFrom Hornell Hart, Fluctuations in Unemployment in Cities of the United States, 1902 lo 1917, Studies rom the Helen S. Trounstine Foundation, Volume I, Number 2. Columns E and F were computed from D. d = Excess of departures over arrivals. In the right-hand section of Chart 22 there 1s shown, by months, the cumulated number of net arrivals of male aliens beginning with January, 1911, and the change in the number unemployed in non- agricultural pursuits in the given month as compared with De- -18

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