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The issue of the supply of skilled labour is high on the agenda in the Nordic countries, as well as that of getting everybody on track for the new knowledge-based society. We have put four questions to the Ministers responsible for labour market policy in the Nordic countries, in order to hear their views on…

Bottlenecks in the labour market?  There will certainly be bottleneck problems in the area of the new technology for a long time yet, but they do not seem to be insurmountable. It already seems that this area attracts a huge number of people of various ages to training, and also producing self-educated people. At present,…

Bottlenecks in the labour market?  The objective of Swedish economic policy is full employment. In the second quarter of 2000 the proportion of people in regular employment was 77.5 per cent, while unemployment was at 4.7 per cent. I believe that it is important that we make sure that all of us who want to…

Bottlenecks in the labour market?   We have in recent years seen a development in Denmark with economic growth and historically low levels of unemployment without this having led to serious bottleneck problems on the labour market. The regional labour market councils and the regional public employment services monitor the development on the labour market…