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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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OECD: the most exposed young must get help now
“If we want to avoid a generation of unemployed, it’s time to help the most exposed to get jobs or education. In the long term we need structural measures to improve the basic system,” says Stefano Scarpetta, the OECD’s deputy director for employment, labour and social affairs.
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Theme: Extending a helping hand to the jobless
Youth need to get back into jobs or education, or else we risk loosing a generation. It is therefore imperative to create job rich growth. We need to act now, and we need to help the weakest ones in the labour market first. That was the message when ILO and IMF and then the OECD,…
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Iceland’s new slimmed-down and EU-critical government
Iceland’s government has been cut from twelve to ten ministers. Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir says the ministerial posts will be cut further in the new year with the merging of several departments.
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Finland’s Anni Sinnemäki: passionate about an individually tailored welfare system
Finland’s Minister of Labour wants to make individuals visible. Young people should not be seen as a uniform group but as separate people with different needs. In Finland a lot of time has been spent analysing each person’s situation, and as a result, she says, the state can offer more rational measures tailored to the…
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Sweden’s Södertälje: a public-private solution to immigrant challenges
Södertälje in Sweden has more than 40 percent immigrants of foreign heritage. For some years the municipality received more refugees from war-ravaged Iraq than the USA and Canada combined, so it’s had its share of challenges when it comes to jobs, accommodation and traditional solutions. The result: extensive co-operation between municipality and businesses, with input…
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When Iceland’s trust vanished, comedian Jón Gnarr became mayor
Reykjavik citizens demonstrated their level of distrust in traditional politics and politicians by voting in comedian Jón Gnarr as their new mayor in last spring’s local elections. Mr Gnarr’s party, The Best Party, entered a coalition with the social democratic party Alliansen (Samfylkingin).
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Employers offered wage subsidies to hire young people in Finland
Finland’s youth unemployment exploded last winter and is now nearly level with that of Spain. The government woke up to the fact in late spring and has introduced wage subsidies targeted at young school leavers and those who cannot find a job.
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Youth unemployment: Iceland fights on many fronts
Unemployment used to be a relatively unknown phenomenon in Iceland. But it skyrocketed with the 2008 financial collapse.
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Iceland’s 0utdated benefit system
The Icelandic Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, used her National Day speech to point out that most households were still struggling with the fallout of the 2008 economic collapse.
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