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 III. Employment opportunities for immigrants

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMMIGRANTS / and neighborhood industries were included, but in the subsequent censuses only factory workers were counted, hence in order to make the 1899 figures comparable with those for the later years, it was necessary to adjust them to exclude, as far as practicable, the number of workers in hand and neighborhood industries. Other Available Monthly Statistics. Although varying in their comprehensiveness and throughout a portion of the period lacking in strict continuity, monthly statisties of the average number of wage earners in Massachusetts factories are available for the period 1889 to 1922.: For the years 1889 to 1906, inclusive, a census of manufactures was taken annually, and included the number of wage earners employed by the reporting concerns, by months, over a period of two years. The fraction of the total represented by the reporting factories varied from year to year, but, due to the fact that each annual report covers two years, it is possible to splice the reports together to produce a consecutive index. Beginning with 1907 the annual Massachusetts Census of Manu- factures is intended to be a substantially complete enumeration rather than a mere sample, and each census covers only twelve months instead of tweny-four as previously. An examination of the data indicates that for the first years following this change in method the census did not approach a complete enumeration with equal consistency; and adjustments, more completely indicated below, have been made to make the series approximately homo- geneous. Somewhat similar statistics of wage earners employed are avail- able for New Jersey. Two special inquiries afford some evidence of employment conditions in the State from June, 1893, to May, 1895, and an annual survey of factory wage workers, by months, covers the period from 1895 to 1919, inclusive. The fraction re- presented by the firms reporting has not been invariable and the samples do not overlap in the way that the Massachusetts statistics did prior to 1907, so that splicing estimates have been necessary in utilizing the New Jersey statistics. Quarterly statistics of the percentage of trade union members unemployed in Massachusetts are available beginning with 1908, . The results of the 1923 Census of Manufactures were not available in time for use in this study. ‘See Table 16 on a later page in this chapter. 0" i

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