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Nokia’s scraps mobile ecosystem in fight to survive
Nokia is shedding thousands of staff world-wide – the equivalent of one in ten workers within its mobile telephone business. The move is part of Nokia’s attempt to remain in profit and improve the growth outlook within a completely new technological ecosystem.
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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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FMs Lavrov and Støre call border agreement small yet important
Norway’s and Russia’s Foreign Ministers signed an agreement on 2 November making it much easier for 9,000 Norwegians and 45,00o Russians to visit each other.
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The changes hidden behind the smokescreen
As the Iron Curtain came down, contacts between the Nordic region and Russia multiplied. Yet the image of the Eastern neighbour needs updating, even in the part of the Nordic region which has enjoyed the friendliest relationship – the Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger on the border with Russia. The nickel plant across the border has…
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Russian Arcady’s weekly commute to Finland
Many travel the 400 kilometres between Helsinki and St Petersburg on business. Yet despite improved communications, a common labour market still is some time away.
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Healthy, competent citizens: the Nordic plan for global competitiveness
Giant pan-Nordic drive for health and well-being takes off.
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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 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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The hunt for highly skilled labour
How do you remain competitive when everybody wants to attract the highest qualified labour? Nordic Labour Journal has travelled around the world to hear both authorities and migrants state their case.
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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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