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Holding on to the foreign workers
More and more Danish companies are increasing their drive to recruit foreign workers. Wind turbine producer Vestas has experienced the importance of creating a social network for foreign workers, and how important it is to help their spouses to find work too.
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Labour ministers up the fight to prevent a lost generation
How do you fight youth unemployment? That was the theme when Nordic labour ministers met in Reykjavik in November. One in five European youths is unemployed. There is fear of a lost generation. The Nordic countries focus on education and help on an individual level to help young people into working life.
8 minutes
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The need for a comprehensive youth policy
Labour ministers want an overview of all measures targeted at youth across all policy areas in the Nordic countries.
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Finland hopes for green jobs too
Finland has long made a living from its “green gold” – the forests – even though its pulp mills and paper production plants hardly can be called environmentally friendly.
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Tailored and targeted measures to help young Danes
Denmark is launching a tailored and targeted drive for 15 to 17 year-olds to get them into education or work. The Danish government plans to spend 1.25 billion Kroner (€170 million) over three years to see the plan through. But the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions says a threat to cut youth benefits is a…
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Municipal job activation in the firing line
Denmark has made municipalities solely responsible for job activation and employment projects for the unemployed in what has proved to be a very controversial reform.
7 minutes
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Youth, unemployment and new thinking
New thinking is needed if the young generation is to secure the older generation of the future. Youth unemployment is on the rise and is forecasted to continue growing in 2010. For many there is real danger of permanent unemployment. Nordic Labour Journal takes a look at how unemployment affects Nordic youths.
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Iceland’s crisis
The money, the assets – have they all evaporated? Once upon a time there was a tiny country – an island – far out at sea, west of Scandinavia, east of the large American continent.
5 minutes
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Downturn hits youth hardest – Sweden takes undesirable lead
An economic downturn often hits young people fastest and hardest. The current crisis is no exception. The Nordic countries usually boast some of Europe’s lowest unemployment figures. Now 27.3 percent of Swedish 15 to 24 year-olds are out of work.
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Finland’s system of “job alternation” becomes permanent
The popular Finnish system of “job alternation” will continue. The system proved so popular and efficient the government decided in September to draft a law to make it permanent.
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