SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE AMONG ETHNOGEOGRAPHIC GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES

Due to the ethnogeographic diversity of American society, the issue of employment differences between ethnogeographic groups in the United States continues to attract considerable attention from social science researchers. However, despite a substantial body of work on this topic, the question of changes in the employment structure of ethnogeographic groups across space has been relatively overlooked. In this regard, the present study aims to identify spatial 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 and national within-profession deviations for each group. The results reveal that, with the exception of Americans, the ethnogeographic groups studied tend to exhibit similarities in their choice of professions in the largest urban areas in the U. S. The analysis also highlighted urban communities that are notably different in their employment structure from other members of these groups in other cities across the U. S. — Russians in Sacramento and Portland, and Mexicans in Boston.