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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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”.
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