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Everybody wants and app – but what for?
“Mobile telephone apps mean new ways of working as we’ll be able to access systems from anywhere and companies will start using mobiles more and more as a tool,” says Elin Lundström, managing director at app developer and IT company Decuria in Stockholm.
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Life after Nokia also means new opportunities
Thousands of Nokia’s former employees have been forced to rethink their futures as the company sheds jobs. In Finland many of them hope to start their own business.
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How about a personal trainer – for your brain?
The Nordic Labour Journal can now add another job to the list of new occupations: ‘personal brainer’. The title holder is Finnish Reidar Wasenius. He recently made a 20 years old dream come true and opened a training centre for brains – BRIIM Center – in Helsinki.
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Unemployment can be defined away
The definition of employment and unemployment differs from country to country. A comparative historical perspective shows the political context – how the problem is presented and how its constituent parts change – steers our understanding. The standard views of employment are no longer relevant in countries like the US or France, according to social historian…
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SCB has surveyed the unemployed for 50 years
There are 4.5 million people in employment in Sweden – one million more than 50 years ago. That is one conclusion to be drawn from Statistics Sweden’s (SCB) monthly labour market figures delivered over the past 50 years. SCB’s labour surveys, known as AKU, have helped politicians, economists, journalists and other decision makers to get…
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Temporary work agencies: misfits in Nordic working life?
This year will see the implementation of the EU directive on temporary agency work which is meant to improve labour mobility and facilitate the growth in temporary work agencies. It will also lay down demands for equal treatment of permanent staff and workers recruited through temporary work agencies.
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Motherhood vs career logic rules
We’re all equal now, right? More women than ever get an education, there are new ideals for what it means to be a father and family-friendly solutions have changed the framework for how mothers’ and fathers’ adapt to work and family life.
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The future’s bright for DNA mappers
Daniel Zakrisson was always interested in genetics. Not surprising, perhaps – he’s an identical twin. He and his brother have taken part in twin studies since they were children. Now he runs a company offering to map your DNA.
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“Myths muddle debate on sick leave”
Björn Johnson is fighting what he calls the myth of Sweden’s high levels of sick leave. The Malmo University researcher has just published ‘The Fight Over Sick Leave’, a book exploring why and when sick leave became defined as a social problem.
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Study: Denmark and Norway enjoy Nordic region’s highest mobility
Denmark coined the term flexicurity, which by some has been used to describe the entire Nordic labour market model. But a new study comparing all the Nordic countries casts the Danish model in a unique light.
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