Can the low unemployment rate of Swedish speakers in Finland be attributed to structural factors?

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 498-513

  Saarela, Jan ^a   Finnäs, Fjalar ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ethnic enclaves; Population groups; Structural factors; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645788861     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.062     Document Type: Article

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