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The hidden costs of youth unemployment
Youth unemployment creates scars which follow people for the rest of their lives. One of the hidden costs of being unemployed when you’re young is that decades later you take home less money than those who weren’t unemployed when they were young. There is also the higher risk of becoming unemployed again, and many unemployed…
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State helps attract foreign labour
A state-run web portal and three regional centres bring Danish companies and foreign job seekers together.
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Nordic region balancing the need for labour and risk of dumping
It’s a balance all the Nordic countries need to strike when they want to attract highly competent labour: how do employers gain easier access to necessary manpower, and how should countries protect their labour markets against social dumping?
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Swedish companies decide labour immigration
In December 2008 Sweden introduced new rules for labour immigration making it easier for employers to recruit labour from countries outside of the Nordic region and the EU. In the year following the change the number of people applying for work permits rose by 30 percent on the previous year.
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Swedish work environment tempts Chinese
Oscar Berger is Sweden’s Counsellor of Labour Market Affairs in Beijing. His job is to study the Chinese labour market and employment issues for the future – including Chinese competence and labour immigration.
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Joint Nordic drive for more foreign labour
Nordic cooperation could help market the region as an attractive labour market for highly educated third-country nationals.
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Indians discover there’s more to Denmark than dairies
Denmark opened a Workindenmark office in New Dehli in October 2008. Now some Indians are slowly getting to know about this Nordic country. Danish authorities are holding back a larger recruitment campaign until they have more knowledge about what career opportunities exist for Indians in Denmark.
6 minutes
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Finland’s welfare system appeals to Indian IT engineers
Indian IT engineers Naveen Kumar Korupolu (32) and Basa Ravikiran (33) arrived in Helsinki from Hyderabad with their families five years ago. They have successfully fought off both long, dark winters and cultural differences. Finns are nice and life feels safe.
4 minutes
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Nordic measures for sustainable working life
In the last analysis, the great challenge for the Nordics is the survival of the welfare state. To meet this challenge, more people must be in work, and they must work for longer than before.
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An open EU labour market needs common occupational classifications
Sweden has been leading an ambitious EU project to translate more than 5,000 job titles and related terms into 22 languages. The project also describes the qualifications needed to get these jobs. This common ‘encyclopedia’ for working life aims to improve cross-border labour market mobility.
3 minutes