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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MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES temporarily out of employment. During the years 1909 to 1913, the ratio of the annual arrivals of alien workers to the number of wage earners attached to the leading industries ranged from 3.45 per cent in 1909 to 4.96 per cent in 1913. During the war the ratio dropped to less than one per cent, but recovered in 1920 to almost two per cent. It is obvious that the incoming tide of alien workers is ordinarily an appreciable fraction of the total number of wage TABLE 11.—RATIOS OF GROSS AND NET ARRIVALS OF ALIEN WORKERS TO THE NUMBER OF WAGE EARNERS ATTACHED TO THE LEADING INDUSTRIES, BY FiscaL YEARS: 1909-1921 ALIEN WORKERS ARRIVING® [NET ARRIVALS OF ALIEN YEAR WAGE WORKERS? ENDING EARNERS? -- p= : = JUNE 30 (THOUSANDS' RATIO TO RATIO TO WAGE WAGE THOUSANDS ALN IRS THOUSANDS BARNS (PER CENT) (PER CENT) 1909 19,736 680.5 3.45 345.9 1.75 1910 20,250 897.7 4.43 593.3 2.93 1911 20,742 743.2 3.58 319.3 1.54 1912 21,134 738.60 I. $3 49 240.2 1.14 1913 21,601 ' 1071.1 4.96 575.0 2.66 1914 22,158 1029.9 4.65 524.4 2.37 1915 22,464 939 1 1.26 429.7 40.13 1916 22764 239.7 1.05 52.1 0.23 1917 22,998 937.7 0 1.03 134.3 0.58 1918 22,315 147.4 0.66 43.0 40.01 1919 22,098 156.2 0.71 415.5 40.07 1920 22,798 403.8 1.77 66.0 0.29 1921 23.330 629.9 2.70 314.8 1.35 aIncludes wage earners attached to factories, transportation and communication, mines and quarries, construction and building, agriculture and ‘unclassified industries.” Computed from estimates for calendar years prepared by Dr. W. I. King. bAll arriving aliens (both immigrant and nonimmigrant) less those listed as having no occupation. °All alien workers arriving less all departing aliens (both emigrant and nonemigrant) except those listed as having no occupation. dExcess of departures over arrivals. earners. However, it is also true that an immigration of three per cent may be a helpful influence in one phase of the cycle and an unwelcome and aggravating factor in another. The volume of immigration must be considered in relation to the contemporaneous conditions of employment before its real importance can be ap- praised. Also, allowance must be made for the offsetting factor of emigration. To these problems we shall turn our attention in subsequent chapters. 59

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