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Majority of Finnish language students are Russian

The latest statistics for immigrants in the Finnish labour market is from 2009. At the end of that year 51,000 people of foreign heritage applied for work and four in five were unemployed. The majority of job seekers came from Russia (12,900 people) and Estonia (6,300 people). Immigrants made up 6.4 percent of all job seekers. At the end of the year 14,400 immigrants were covered by integration programmes.

 

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