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 II. Significant features of migration

Collection:: Economics Books

MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES Marked Seasonal Variation. An examination of the quarterly and monthly data on immigra- tion reveals a marked, and, on the whole, a regular seasonal varia- tion. This is clearly evidenced by Chart 2. The upper section of CHART 2 THE MARKED SEASONAL MOVEMENT IN IMMIGRATION: 1885-1924 Ratio Scale r= - [oa IMMIGRANTS BY QUARTERS’] vill oF 200000} Lr FW y - XV 1a fic) 1 No A 100,000} - B- he 50,000 | ’ ] zacol dt Tod EF TO 0 7 on iv MALE IMMIGRANTS BY MONTHS? 100,000} t 50,00: 10,00¢ i 5.000 Co 3,000 IT AD EEE EC = sNumerical data in Appendix Table I. vNumerical data in Appendix Table II. this chart presents the quarterly data for 1885 to 1904 (calendar years) showing invariably a relatively large immigration in the second quarter comprising April, May, and June. In the lower section of the chart, covering the period 1905 to 1924 by months, a similar marked seasonal variation appears prior to the Great War. During and immediately after the war, the seasonal is somewhat distorted and subordinated. After 1921, the influence of the per centum limit law, permitting twenty per cent of the admissible quota to enter in any one month, beginning in July, has caused the 326

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