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Norway’s female boardroom quotas: what has been the effect? forskning

Norway’s female boardroom quotas: what has been the effect?

Eight years after Norway introduced the law on gender equality in boardrooms, there are zero female CEOs in the country’s 60 largest companies. Mari Teigen and other researchers have written a book about why the boardroom quota system has had such a small “contagious” effect.
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Editorial: Cooperation under pressure

Whatever happened to the Nordic negotiation model? people asked as news broke that SAS employees were told to accept longer hours for less pay or see the airline go bust.
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Nordic region's anti-social dumping drive

The fight against some Eastern European workers' bad working conditions in the Nordic countries depends on better information.
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"LinkedIn can complement the employment service"

“We must improve matching in the labour market, and the employment service needs help from other players to do this. LinkedIn could play an important role in a well functioning labour market,” says Sweden’s Minister for Employment, Ylva Johansson.
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Knowledge and efforts needed for a better work environment

We all want a working life we can live with. How do you achieve that? We have asked people in workplaces which have won awards for good work environments, experts and others who are serious about the work environment: what is needed to create change for the better?
Greenland — worth the journey analyse
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Greenland — worth the journey

The fisheries producing the Greenland prawns and halibut still represent Greenland’s most important industry, and the grant from Denmark is still the country’s largest source of money. The dream is for mining and perhaps oil to make up a larger part of the revenue.
The Faroe Islands’ future must be more than fish innsikt

The Faroe Islands’ future must be more than fish

What will the Faroese live off when there is no more fish? Is the answer oil or tourism? The important thing is to create jobs for women in the archipelago which is more patriarchal than other parts of the Nordic region.
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New Danish government: A new and challenging course for Danish labour market politics

Denmark’s new centre-right government faces the hard task of reforming the country’s unemployment benefit model.
Anda Uldum: The man with the key to the national coffers and the mines innsikt
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Anda Uldum: The man with the key to the national coffers and the mines

Greenland’s new Minister of Finance and Raw Materials, Anda Uldum, is facing a giant challenge.
Jari Lindström: The Minister of Employment who switched sides interview

Jari Lindström: The Minister of Employment who switched sides

A few years ago Jari Lindström was an unemployed paper mill worker in an industrial town with no future. Today he is Minister of Justice and Employment in the Finnish government planning considerable benefit cuts. Lindström has been forced to defend decisions he was fighting against not long ago.
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