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 VII. Cyclical fluctuations of selected elements in migration

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CYCLICAL FLUCTUATIONS IN MIGRATION 139 CHART 27 RELATIVE FLUCTUATIONS IN NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS AND NON- IMMIGRANTS, CLASSIFIED, BY SEX: 1905-1924. Only the relative slope, not | TOTAL IMMIGRA*™S the vertical position, of these curves Is significant: 0 a gd \ IS \ SCALES OF PERCENTAGE FEMALE IMA I57ARTS 20 EANGE I 160 120 80 Decrease TOTAL NONIMMIGRA! 75° 40 20 4 3 o /0 } 20 2 =n 40 Increase | go 60 FEMA..E. NONIMMIGRANT 14151161718 19 [20| 21 [22 | 23]24 Years Ending June 30 sNumerical’data in Table 36. All of the curves shown in the above chart have been plotted to the same ratio scale, so that equal vertical distances measured upward indicate the same percentage increase; and equal distances measured downward, the same percentage decrease, as shown by the Scales of Percentage Change accompanying the chart. But, to avoid confusing recrossing, each curve has a different base line; hence in interpreting this chart only the slope, or vertical change, and not the vertical position of a curve, should be considered. Method of Charting. The method of charting used in Chart 27 may not be familiar to the reader, and as there are several charts in this and the following chapter which are similar in principle a few words of explanation are pertinent. These are so-called “ratio” or ‘rate-of-change” charts, with a logarithmic vertical scale and also with a different

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