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

Collection:: Economics Books

MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES to make use of them. More details of its construction are given in the following paragraphs. The Estimate for Massachusetts. An examination of Chart 9 will aid in following the process used in constructing the estimate of factory employment in Massa- chusetts. The fragments of curves in the lower part of the chart CHART 9 ILLUSTRATION OF METHOD OF ESTIMATING FACTORY EMPLOYMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS: 550 ~ Sou IN 30, wr ton A ) ra NN 339 a Sow Siig S250 . 2 3 oa 7 = CENSUS 5, 200 | 2 Fe," ESTIMATE S150 2 AN = SAMPLE 100 50 0 Z889 1690 | 1851] 1692 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 1899 | 1900 1903 | 1904 sSee explanation in accompanying text. represent the unadjusted data for numbers employed in identical . establishments. Each fragment is twenty-four months long and, for the second twelve months, runs substantially parallel to the succeeding fragment. The upper curve on the chart represents the revised estimate of factory employment in Massachusetts obtained by (1) splicing the fragments together at the December points which are common to two fragments, and (2) raising the resulting index to make it consistent with the complete enumeration of the Census years. The black circle for 1899 represents the Census average for that 9See Table 15. 70)

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