Development of Aland Islands: major trends and challenges
... considers key conditions and factors of the development of Aland Islands, describes main international legal regulations determining current status of the islands, identifies the trends in volume and structure of economic activities, ana lyzes processes of population change by regions and communes, as well as migration flows. The article also characterizes legal framework for socioeconomic development of the Finnish region. It is argued that the key factor behind modern welfare of the islands is not their ...
Spatial differences in the occupational structure among ethnogeographic groups in the United State
... differences in the employment of ethnogeographic groups in the U. S. The analysis covers 25 major urban areas and 12 ethnogeographic groups. To compare the employment structure of an ethnogeographic group with the overall employment structure of the population in a given urban area, as well as with the employment structure of urban members of the same group across the U.S., the dissimilarity index was used. Additionally, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients were calculated between the urban ...