THE PRE-WAR QUARTER CENTURY
TABLE 25.—CyCLES IN MALE EMIGRATION, BY MONTHS: 1910-1914
Three-month moving average of percentage deviations from the mean for the
period, expressed as multiples of their standard deviation (19.1 per cent).
YEAR AND MONTH Deviation YEAR AND MONTH DEeviaTiON
1910 1912
dan........... a July. SH —0.2
Feb... —2.0 Avg... —0.3
Mar... —1.1 EP ce aii hs ee —0.2
i oF ag —0 4 Det... .0
Maye. oo ails wl 2 Novia Siri +0.6
June... sv... —1.4 IGE. cls + since ia +1.3
July ions lS 11913
hs —0.5
I Siac x x xs os —0.5 RR Jane ym +1.2
A —0.4 Pebbles +0.5
Nov.........-. —0.6 Var iar as —0.4
Dec........... —0.5 BT 3 ain nae —0.8
My. laid. —0.7
1911 June... io. edd —0.6
Jol. —0.2 July oo ill —0.5
i +0.1 ue —0.8
Mar... 0. +0.4 Sept... 000 —0.7
ADL vane vn +0.6 Oot. Lolssa —1.1
VISY « oniis den x +0.9 Nov..... cin —1.1
June.......... +2.0 Doe... lav +0.1
July. nies +2.3 [1914
ue... .... +2.3 Ja. a +1.0
Septe.. oul, +1.4 Bebb ova +0.9
OIE ho eis e sien +1.2 Mar..........48 +0.1
Nov........... +1.0 apr... Vo. —0.1
Dee.......-... +0.3 May: dons is +1.6
JUNE. Ji). «+ sielsbics +1.5
1912
Jamo au —0.2 Jaly ill R00. +1.8
Reb... aviee.e —0.2 ARE. .icils crass +0.2
Mar. ........, .0 Sept............ —0.4
Apri... 0. ml —0.4 Pete buat, —1.6
May.......... —0.6 NOV... visas —1.9
June. ....... —0.6 Daca leek rn.
sComputed from monthly emigration statistics in the U. S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization,
Immigration Bulletin (monthly).
The Volume of Unemployment and the Volume of Immigration.
The analysis in the preceding sections has indicated rather clearly
that fluctuations in both emigration and immigration are closely
related to employment conditions in this country.
The question next arises as to the extent to which the volume of
immigration is numerically comparable with the contemporaneous
volume of unemployment. It is obvious that the inadequacy of the
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