Labour Market

  • Head-hunters to help Longterm Unemployed

    Expert group proposes new models to meet labour market demands: “We believe that improving the function of the labour market and ensuring the availability of labour will be key factors in the next few years. This policy line includes the provision of some additional services for more hard-to-place applicants by ‘head-hunters’,” says Heikki Räisänen, an…

    2 minutes

  • Nordic Council takes up the fight against illegal workers

    The Nordic countries are to set up control systems to fight and expose companies using illegal workers, according to a decision taken by the Nordic Council at its session in Copenhagen.

    1 minute

  • A Nordic strategy for maintaining a supply of labour?

    As with the rest of Europe, the labour force in the Nordic countries will change in the future. There is a great risk of a future lack of manpower. Therefore discussions will start between politicians and the social partners regarding future manpower requirements. The challenge is to find strategies that cover future manpower needs, without…

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    3 minutes

  • Nordic PESs cooperate effectively – but continued obstacles to a true common labour market

    «The public employment services (PESs) in the Nordic countries cooperate effectively when employers are looking for labour from neighbouring countries. Contacts are made easily and trustfully, and are based on confidence and familiarity. » So says international director Peter R. Myklebust, of the Norwegian Directorate of Labour.

    4 minutes

  • The Nordic Ministers of Labour

    The issue of the supply of skilled labour is high on the agenda in the Nordic countries, as well as that of getting everybody on track for the new knowledge-based society. We have put four questions to the Ministers responsible for labour market policy in the Nordic countries, in order to hear their views on…

    1 minute

  • Tarja Filatov, Social Democratic Party, Finland

    Bottlenecks in the labour market?  There will certainly be bottleneck problems in the area of the new technology for a long time yet, but they do not seem to be insurmountable. It already seems that this area attracts a huge number of people of various ages to training, and also producing self-educated people. At present,…

    2 minutes

  • Mona Sahlin, Social Democratic Party, Sweden

    Bottlenecks in the labour market?  The objective of Swedish economic policy is full employment. In the second quarter of 2000 the proportion of people in regular employment was 77.5 per cent, while unemployment was at 4.7 per cent. I believe that it is important that we make sure that all of us who want to…

    4 minutes

  • Ove Hygum, Social Democratic Party, Denmark

    Bottlenecks in the labour market?   We have in recent years seen a development in Denmark with economic growth and historically low levels of unemployment without this having led to serious bottleneck problems on the labour market. The regional labour market councils and the regional public employment services monitor the development on the labour market…

    3 minutes

  • Páll Pétursson, Progress Party, Iceland

    Bottlenecks in the labour market?  Bottleneck problems in the labour market often require long-term solutions such as through changes to wage scales and the introduction of relevant education, regional development or adaptation programmes. In the short term we need to utilise the mobile labour from other countries. In situations of high unemployment, the demand for…

    3 minutes

  • Jørgen Kosmo, Labour Party, Norway

    Bottlenecks in the labour market?  With such an open economy as that in Norway and the dramatic technological developments we are experiencing, we must go in for great adaptability in working life. An education/training system that quickly detects the need for different types of labour force and adapts itself to that need will be a…

    3 minutes