Labour Market
- Gender Equality
- Green Transition
- International
- Labour Law
- Labour Market
- Nordic Model
- Research & Progress
- Work Environment
-
The deaf TV editors
In a crisis those on the peripheries of the labour market suffer the most. Who wants to invest in a deaf or deafblind when the future of the company hangs in the balance? ASVO in Bergen, Norway, does exactly that.
2 minutes
-
Knowledge bank to help young outsiders
By 2013 the European Solidarity Foundation (ESF) will have funded 1,000 projects in Sweden alone aimed at young workers and those who fall outside the labour market. The resulting know-how is taken further by The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs and the Employment Service with their project “Young Workers”.
2 minutes -
Pay cuts – a shortsighted strategy
With the economic downturn unemployment has become a real threat to Nordic workers. Many are prepared to stretch far to keep their jobs, including taking voluntary pay cuts. But pay cuts do not necessarily solve a business’ problems, and could prove to be a bottomless pool.
2 minutes -
Class decides young adults’ options
Social background plays a major part when young adults consider their chances of fulfilling their professional dreams. Old structures go and the individual takes centre stage, forcing people to carry responsibility for their own success or failure. No matter where you work, the group matters less and less.
4 minutes -
Iceland: light at the end of the tunnel?
When faced with an economic crisis, Icelanders used to simply buckle down and work harder for a while. Now they’re faced with the unusual situation of having no jobs to go to. This economic crisis has hit everybody hard, and especially the unemployed.
7 minutes -
Making new welfare policy in the US
Can conditional cash payments help your kids stay in school or do well on tests or help families beat the poverty trap? It was proven successful in Mexico, New York City is testing it now, and Britain’s Gordon Brown is watching closely to see if there is something to learn.
7 minutes -
Working con amore
After fifteen years in Italy, it feels wonderful to be taken on the wings of the Scandinavian labour market. Not under! That’s the whole point.
3 minutes
-
Employing the last unemployed
Out of a total of 25 million people in the five Nordic countries, there are now only 422,000 unemployed. April saw the Norwegian unemployment rate plummet to 1.6 per cent. Denmark is close with 1.9 per cent. The numbers for Iceland and Sweden are somewhat higher, with 2.3 and 3.2 per cent. Finland has 6.8…
3 minutes -
Social entrepreneurs fighting for outsiders
At Stockholm’s “Fryshuset” (the Cold Store) a 25-year-old social entrepreneurship is turning the destructive forces which often plague social outsiders to positive forces and insider status. New methods grow to meet new demands. The aim is to catch youth at risk of falling outside of society, to recognise their potential and believe in their power…
7 minutes
-
From outsider to employed
Morten Skov Nielsen got a job and lots of self-confidence – and he’s growing with the task. ”It’s much better than I’d thought”, says 24-year-old Morten Skov Nielsen.
6 minutes