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 VI. The war and post-war period

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t MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES actuated by economic motives in this period. Prior to our entry into the war, a considerable fraction of the usual flow continued from neutral countries, and even from the allied countries; and the number of ‘immigrants’ recorded from British North America increased, exceeding one hundred thousand in each of the fiscal years 1915-16, and 1916-17. The numbers from Mexico also in- creased, particularly if we include those admitted during and immediately following the war period by special provision waiving the literacy test and admitting for temporary conditional sojourn to help meet the demand for labor. TABLE 29.—EFFECT OF THE WAR UPON ALIEN MIGRATION» Thousands of Persons ALIEN ExcEss oF CALENDAR YEAR ALIEN ARRIVALS DEPARICRES ARRIVALS OVER DEPARTURESP 1913 1,617 599 1,018 1914 848 585 263 1915 328 285 43 1916 429 165 264 1917 212 131 81 1918 225 184 41 1919 397 393 5 1920 918 423 495 1921 694 414 280 1922 520 242 277 1923 906 199 707 1924 527 232 295 sCompiled from the publications of the United States Bureau of Immigration. Both permanent and temporary migrants are included. g . . »Apparent discrepancies of one thousand in this column compared with the difference of the first two columns is due to the fact that the differences were computed from the original data before reduction to thousands. THE POST-WAR PERIOD The history of migration subsequent to the armistice presents many peculiar features. Over the greater part of the period unusual forces were operating to distort fluctuations in migration from their characteristic pre-war types. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, the greater part of emi- gration was to Canada, Mexico, Italy, and Greece, but emigration to Europe trebled in the following immigration year, ending June 30, 1920. 124.

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