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

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SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF MIGRATION 49 decennial census periods and the volume of immigration during the ten years centering at July 1st of the census year. It will be noted that immigration was relatively greatest in the decade from July 1, 1846, to June 30, 1855, in which period the average annual im- migration was about equal to one and one-quarter per cent of the total population. In no subsequent decade has the average annual ratio of immigration to population fallen below one-half of one per cent or much exceeded one per cent. TABLE 9.—AVERAGE ANNUAL IMMIGRATION COMPARED WITH POPULATION, BY DECADES AVERAGE ANNUAL IMMIGRATION Date or CENsUS PopurLaTiON = (THOUSANDS) NUMBER IRATIO TO POPULA- (THOUSANDS): TION (PER CENT) JUNE1-1830......... cc... 12,866 34 .26 JONE1-1840..............." 17,069 77 45 Jung1-1850...............™ 23,192 296 1.28 JUNE I-1860... ............. 31,443 158 .50 JUNE 1-1870...........7 TF. 38,558 338 | .83 JUNE1-1880.......... t=... 50,156 406 81 JUNE 1-1890... .... . 62,948 439 | TY Jone 1-1900............... 75,995 540 71 APRIL 15-1910... ......7. .. 91,972 942 02 Jan. 1-1020." 0... tT 59 105,711 389s 37 aThe population data are from the 1920 Census, Vol. II, p. 29; the average annual immigration is computed from data in the 1924 Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, p. 122, and from mimeographed bulletins of the U. S. Bureau of Immigration for the last six months of 1924, and, except in the last case, is the average over ten years centered at July 1st of the census year. bAverage for ten years centered at January 1, 1920. If we turn to a year-by-year comparison, we find, as would be expected, a greater variation in the ratio of immigration to popu- lation. In Table 10 is given a comparison between the total number of alien arrivals in fiscal years ending June 30th, and the estimated population on January 1st of the corresponding years, and also a comparison between population and the net alien movement—that 18, arrivals less departures. It should be noted that the data in Table 9 include only those aliens officially recorded as immigrants, but that in Table 10 and Table 11 nonimmigrants and nonemigrants are also included; hence in the immediately following paragraphs the term “immigration” refers to all arriving aliens. This estimate of population was prepared by Dr. W. I. King, of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is based upon interpolations between the decennial censuses with the aid of immigration data and the available statistics of births and deaths.

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