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 VIII. The influence of economic conditions in the countries of emigration

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; MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES plotting, so that it is only the shape of the curves and not their vertical distance from the base line which is significant. Though the movement from Sweden did not reach its peak until 1888, on the whole the proportion of total immigration contributed by each of these countries declined during the greater part of the period CHART 35 fa TT a Fa Ee RATIO OF IMMIGRATION FROM THE STATED COUNTRY TO TOTAL IMMIGRATION® 1870-1914 : THE"NEW'SOURCES SCALES OF TOTAL PERCENTAGE ForaL, CHANGE Arve AT 200 — e 160 y 120 80 Decrease 40 20 | S 0 10 only the relative'slope, not the | = vertical position, of these curves Increase | is significant ® 50 60 EPA Fao GaSe i SRO ood 7 peo Sp pp AO 2 Years Ending June 30 «Numerical data in Tables 4 and 45. »For more a complete discussion of the method of constructing the above chart, see footnote (b) to Chart 27, in Chapter VII. since 1870. The probable causes of substantial deviations from the general trend for any one country, such as the sharp rise in the proportion from England in 1895, from Germany in 1904, or from Ireland in 1895 and 1905, will be considered later in the chapter, when analyzing the conditions peculiar to each of the leading emigrant countries. Chart 35 is similar to 34, except that it presents the data for the leading “new’’ sources of immigration. For each of these countries, 160

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