Journal Article On a Passage of Professor Taussig's International Trade Get access Achille Loria, Achille Loria Turin, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 46, Issue 1, November 1931, Pages 187–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883926 Published: 01 November 1931

MONTHLY data for the building and construction industries available for the period since the War make possible a fairly satisfactory measure of the cyclical fluctuations in building activity. In an earlier issue of this REVIEW, a detailed analysis of building statistics for the United States was presented and certain important conclusions were drawn concerning the general character of fluctuations in the building industry.' The following pages are devoted to a brief description of the post-war cyclical fluctuations of building activity and to discussion of the data, methods, and statistical background of our adjusted indexes of building and real estate activity.

Nature of the problem, 309; of the data, 314. — Evidence as to geographical mobility of labor, 316. — Duration of unemployment: before first job, 324; time on first job, 329; time lost during period of survey, 329; unemployed at end of survey, 332: — Quality of jobs obtained, 334. — Change in annual income, 339. — The dismissal wage: purpose, 342; utilization, 343; adequacy, 345.

Early history of the industry in Europe, 589.— Growth in the United States since 1911; the American Viscose Company the leading producer, 590. — The technical processes, 592. — Steady improvement of rayon quality, 593.—Protection and its proximate results, 597.—Failures and successes, 600.— Advance in comparative effectiveness, 603.— Costs abroad and at home, 604.—Extraordinary profits, 608.—Domestic and foreign prices, 610.—Duopoly; international ramifications and combinations, 614.— Summary on tariff effects, 617.— The future, 619.

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