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

Collection:: Economics Books

CYCLICAL FLUCTUATIONS IN MIGRATION 147 TABLE 41.—RELATIVE DECLINE IN DEPRESSION YEARS OF THE IMMIGRATION OF SELECTED OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS PERCENTAGE CHANGE FROM THE PRECEDING OCCUPATION OF IMMIGRANTS YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH 1904 1908 1911 1922 Unskilled (general and farm laborers) —25.6 | —53.7 | —34.0 ~—77.6 SErVanis........ . So ————. 413.200 26. ¢ iL +10.9 —56.5 Professional... «i .00 vob oo HE +89.5" | —12.1_J| +16.5 —24.9 SKilled. +22.1. —35.0 | + 7.4 —60.9 No occupation. ............ —-==— + 7.5 —20.4 — 5.4 —56.5 In these four depression years, including both mild and severe employment slumps, the greatest drop in each case is evidenced in the number of unskilled workers, while the other groups in some instances even show an increase. A more complete picture of the relative fluctuations in the several occupational groups is given in Chart 29, covering the fiscal years 1899 to 1914 and 1920 to 1924. The effect of the minor depressions of 1901, 1904, 1911, and 1914 are evidenced in most of the occupational groups by a decline, or at least a slackening of the rate of increase; all series declined sharply in 1908 and some series continued this decline in 1909 ; all series rose in the boom of 1913. After the war, a strong upward movement is evident in all groups through 1919, 1920, and 1921, followed by a sharp decline in 1922, with a decided recovery in 1923 and 1924, despite the restrictive influence of the quota law. While similarities in the movements of the several groups are more striking than differences, yet on close examination of the separate curves in Chart 29 exceptions from the general tendencies do become apparent. The “no occupation” and professional groups evidence relatively less complete and less prompt reaction to de- pression conditions than the other groups. For example, in 1908 these groups decline, but not so much as the general decline, and they continue to decline in 1909. The skilled and servant groups show somewhat greater responsiveness than the two just mentioned, but also do not reach bottom until 1909. The farm laborers, general laborers, and farmers appear to move more nearly in accord with industrial ups and downs.

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