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 IX. Seasonal fluctuations

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7d MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES migrants show an even greater peak in April than the immigrants. This is notably true for the South Italian nonimmigrant group. On the other hand, we found, in examining Chart 48, that the seasonal movement of female nonimmigrants exhibits less tendency to peak in the spring. Thus it would appear that, while the alien nonimmigrant is on the whole guided in his choice of sailing months by much the same considerations that influence the alien intending to establish permanent residence in the United States, yet the tendency toward the spring concentration is most marked among TABLE 53—INDICES OF PRE-WAR SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS IN ARRIVALS* Monthly average—100 Cc | IMMIGRANT ALIENS NON-IMMIGRANT ALIENS IT- er i ie) =. M N N BTR, IZENS Nora. | Male Un- [2 He- | SoutH | ToraL | Marg SourH | SKILLED = tron BREWS (ITALIAN ITALIAN eT NN us a a = a b C d e f g h : i j Jann. 51.2 Jay 51.7 "52.9 53.4 , 77.0 38.7 | 56.6 | 60.4 35.3 Feb... [1 71 4B) ‘62 8 | 66.9 74.3 55.0 70.000 35°71 68'S 70.6 62.2 Mar... | 93.0 | 117.4 135.8 169.3 88.0 85.4 161.9 122.1 140.6 164.3 Apr....l 88.7 135.5 152.4 173.5 105.3 66.1 175.9 159.1 173.6 222.0 May.. | 84.7 131.9 137.7 150.2 119.3 74.5 156.9 124.2 128.9 184.3 June.. | 84.7 113.6 114.9 113.8 119.3 122.6 132.3 94.6 97.2 128.4 July.. | 91.5 95.0 , 90.8 | 69.4 ! 103.1 | 137.1 760.0 176.8 | 77 ON 5a ly Aug... 157.301.9311 87.3 70.8 103.5 132.30 75.6 | 90.9 92.5 63.4 Sept... 196.3 104.9 95.8 81.1 120.0 | 138.3 94.4 124 .4 103.0 64.3 Oct... B139.2 | 109.8 97.9 86.6 124.8 77.0 83.5 123.2 100.4 70.8 Nov... 79 2 100.8 90.1 83.9 112.1 | 103.4 79.4 87.3 81.0 71.9 Dec... "62 3 82.5 78.1 73.8 96.2 | 115.4 75.9 | 72.6 73.8 78.8 *Computed from U. S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration Statement and Inward Passenger Movement, monthly issues July, 1907, to February, 1909; and Immigration Bulletin, monthly issues, March, 1909, to June, 1914. The periods covered by the data are as follows: Series a, b, and h, July, 1907, to June, 1914; series i, July, 1908, to June, 1914; series d, January, 1909, to December, 1913; and series c, e, f, g, and j, January, 1909, to June, 1914. those elements in the nonimmigrant group for whom it is most likely that the opportunity for employment is the incentive for their voyage to America. Unskilled Workers and Non-Workers (Fig. C, Chart 49). Of special interest are the contrasts between the seasonal move- ments of those who represent additions to the unskilled element in the wage earning group in this country, and those immigrants who are listed as having “no occupation.” In preparing Fig. C, in Chart 49, we assumed that those incoming immigrants listed as “laborers” and ‘farm laborers” might be grouped as ‘‘unskilled workers,” and have compared the seasonal fluctuations of this group with those of the immigrant aliens in the “no occupation” 216

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