1. Are industrial accidents more frequent in low paid or in high paid occupations?
2. Suggest advantages and disadvantages of a general system of compulsory industrial insurance for old age, sickness and accidents. What are the essential differences between these three forms of insurance?
3. Show to what extent a system of workingmen's insurance has been developed in one of the following countries: Germany, France, Italy, England. In the development of a general system of workingmen's insurance in the U. S., which one of the above forms will probably first come in? For what reasons has a system of this kind not been developed in the U. S.? Henderson, C. R., Industrial insurance.
[CHAPTER 24]
POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION
References.
*Adams and Sumner, ch. III.
*Commons and Andrews, ch. II, sec. 4.
Fairchild, H. P., Immigration. 1913.
"The standard of living—up or down? A. E. Rev., 6: 9-25. 1916.
Fetter, F. A., Population or prosperity. A. E. Rev., 3 (no. 1, supp.): 5-19. 1913. (Presidential address before the American Economic Association, 1912, much of which is incorporated with chap. 24 in the text.)
Goldenweiser, E. A., Walker's theory of immigration. Am. J. Soc, 18: 342-351. 1912-1913.
Hall, P. F., The recent history of immigration and immigration restriction. J. P. E., 21: 735-751. 1913.
*Hamilton, Readings, 384-386, 392-395.
Husband, W. W., The significance of emigration. A. E. Rev., 2 (no. 1, supp.): 79-85. 1912. Round table discussion of above, 86-88.
Jenks, J. W., and Lauck, W. J., The immigration problem. 1912.
Lauck, W. J., The vanishing American wage-earner. Atlan. Mo., 110: 691-696. 1912.
*Materials, 146-156.
Mayo-Smith, Richmond, Statistics and economics. 1899. Bk. I, ch. V.
Mayo-Smith, Richmond, Statistics and sociology. 1895. Bk. I, chs. V-VII.
Millis, H. A., Some economic aspects of Japanese immigration. A. E. Rev., 5: 787-804. 1915.
Page, T. W., The distribution of immigrants in the United States before 1870. J. P. E., 20: 676-694. 1912.
Page, T. W., Some economic aspects of immigration before 1870. Ibid., 20: 1011-1028; 21: 34-55. 1912, 1913.
Roberts, Peter, The new immigration. 1912.
Ross, E. A., The old world in the new. 1914.
*Source Book, 187-198. (Extract from Jenks and Lauck.)
Warne, F. J., The tide of immigration. 1916.
Questions.
1. Tabulate and chart the changes that have taken place in our immigration in regard to (1) amount, (2) character. What problems are presented by these facts? Stat. Abst.
2. Explain the terms "the new immigration" and "the old immigration," and give the important statistical facts regarding them.