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

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INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 187 3 piplIOANE! States, while such agreement is evidenced less requgniy“b} emi- gration to the “other countries.” This adds some evids Fy oou not in itself sufficient to be conclusive, to indicate that t dengy for emigration to the United States in these years en conditions in the United States, rather than in the home country, is not merely accidental but directly caused by the industrial con- ditions in the United States. For example, in 1896 economic activity in the United Kingdom increased, but slumped in the United States, and British emigration to the United States, but not to other countries, declined. A similar situation existed in 1911. Also, in 1909 conditions improved in the United States more rapidly than in Great Britain, and British emigration to the United States increased, though emigration to other countries declined. IMMIGRATION FROM GERMANY Immigration from Germany to the United States has experienced two great booms, one following the revolutionary disturbances in 1848 and culminating in 1854, when the recorded number of im- migrants from Germany was 215,009; and a second wave culminat- ing in 1882, with a total of 250,630, representing almost 32 per cent of the total immigration into the United States in that year. Sub- sequent to 1882 the general trend of immigration from Germany has been downward; though from 1900 to 1904 there was an increase, and thereafter up to the beginning of the war period the annual movement decreased only slightly. (See Chart 32). Proportion of Total Immigration (Chart 34). In the seventies and eighties, immigration from Germany cons- tituted, in most years, from twenty to thirty per cent or more of the total immigration to the United States; but in each year from 1900 to 1914, with the exception of 1904, it represented less than five per cent. This ratio to the total immigration declined during the depression of the seventies, rose sharply in 1881 and remained at this new high level for five years, then began a long decline, broken only by temporary recovery movements, notably in 1903 and 1904, 1908, and 1911. Business Cycles in Germany and the United States. Particularly in the first two decades after 1870, the fluctuations in economic conditions in the United States and Germany, as in-

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