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1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />r <br />1 <br />1 <br />average. Thus, sharing on the population basis will lead to an overestimate of the impacts since <br />tribal economies have a less than average level of economic activity. <br />Employment-based approach. The second approach is to use the share of total regional <br />employment held by tribal members. Sharing on the basis of employment will underestimate the <br />impacts. The general argument is based on Table 2-A-2, which shows that labor moves freely <br />between tribal and non-tribal lands. To the extent that the labor force migration from the tribal <br />lands is greater than that to the tribal lands, sharing on the basis of relative employment will <br />understate the impacts. <br />Table 3 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />i <br />-D-1 Regional and Tribal Unemployment Rates <br />10 County Region Navajo Jicarilla Southern Ute Ute Mountain Ute <br />Apache <br />9.7% 27.9% 17.2% NA 19.0% <br />Sources: 1990 Census for the region (County rates weighted by population). Tiller, 1996 for the <br />tribal rates. <br />23