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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.
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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.
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Hanne Bjurstrøm: Norway’s new Minister of Labour with a vision
Norway’s new Minister of Labour, Hanne Bjurstrøm, wants to sort out the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, find efficient systems to deal with social dumping and help more people with reduced work capacity. Her vision: to help anyone who is able to do some work get out of being passive recipients of state support. To…
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Finns want to work longer
The debate on retirement age has been intense in Finland in recent years, and now it is really starting to take off. New research shows more and more Finns are prepared to work after the age of 63. Meanwhile the government is trying through normative means to get people to stay in work until they…
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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
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Inger Støjberg – fighting unemployment with cross-party cooperation
Just as the economic crisis hit Denmark in April 2009, Inger Støjberg took up her position as Minister of Employment and Gender Equality. She was already known as a vocal spokeswoman for the Danish Liberal Party. Now she is the promoter of broad agreements with the opposition.
10 minutes
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The life and death of a profession
How does a new occupation emerge? It’s a simple question which is hard to answer. Why can’t existing occupations cover the needs created by new technology and changes in consumer habits?
4 minutes
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It took 121 years to agree what psychologists really do
When Sigmund Freud treated his first patient in 1889 little did he know that 121 years later there would be 77,250 psychiatrists and 250,000 psychologists in Europe. That is also how long it has taken to agree on a common European standard of qualifications.
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