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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FOREWORD Migration and Business Cycles presents the results of investi- gations made by the National Bureau of Economic Research at the request of a committee of the National Research Council. It forms part of two series of studies. One series, planned by the Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration, deals with the charaec- ter, causes, and effects of mass-movements of men. The second series, planned by the National Bureau, deals with the character, causes, and effects of cyclical fluctuations in economic activities. The Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration was appointed in October, 1922, by the National Research Council on recommendation of the Council’s Division of Anthropology and Psychology. Its duties were (1) carefully to consider, from the point of view of natural science, the complex migrational situation resulting from the World War and from the virtual elimination of space as a barrier to movements of man and to race intermixture; 2) to prepare a research program which might reasonably be expected to yield ultimately such reliable information con- cerning physical, mental, and social characteristics, relations and values of ethnic groups (races and peoples) as is neces- sary for the understanding and wise regulation of mass- movements of mankind; and (2) to initiate, organize, support, coordinate, or otherwise further, in accordance with the best judgment of the group, impor- tant investigations.: The members of this Committee as originally organized were Dr. Raymond Dodge, then Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan Univ- ersity, Dr. Frank R. Lillie, Professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago, Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institu- tion of Washington, Miss Mary Van Kleeck, Director of Industrial Studies in the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator See the report of Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Chairman of the Committee, Journal of Personnel Research, October, 1924, vol. iii, p. 189. MN

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