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 I. The problem

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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM The Nature of Modern Migration. In significant respects, the great migratory movement to the United States in recent decades differs from earlier migrations. The migration of the semi-barbaric races which conquered the countries of southern and western Europe was a concerted, hostile movement of whole peoples, moving as military or political units. Likewise the early colonization of the Western Hemisphere by European peoples was largely by organized groups or under direct political authorization and for governmental purposes. In contrast, the European emigration of recent history has been essentially a peaceful phenomenon of individual and family move- ment, although attaining an enormous scale which has given it a significance at least comparable to any of the earlier movements. The motives for this movement of millions of people must be sought in the conditions which lead the individual to break es- tablished ties and risk a new start in a strange country. These motives, as well as the effects of the resulting migration, are as varied and complex as human life itself, and the minute details could be ascertained only by examination of the histories of the individual migrants. But general tendencies are more significant than an unwieldly mass of detail; and, because of the great numbers in- volved, significant major tendencies can best be discovered by the use of the statistical methods suitable for the quantitative analysis of mass phenomena. Accordingly, this monograph presents the results of a quantitative analysis of migratory movements. While it is a part of a comprehensive coordinated program of investigation of the fundamental problems of migration, the present report is restricted primarily to the results of one phase of a survey of the economic causes and effects of migration, with particular regard to the supply of labor in the United States. Migration and the Supply of Labor. ‘+ The significance of the problem of the relation of immigration to labor supply and the desirability of subjecting it to a close analysis 79

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