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Why Swedish countryside youths are ahead in the labour market

In Sweden, fewer young people from the countryside go on to university or other higher education compared with city youths. Yet more young people in rural areas – and especially men – start working earlier than their peers in towns and metropolitan areas. Many also work while studying.

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Difference between city and countryside

Youths in cities have somewhat different upbringings than those in rural areas.

(Photo: Mads Schmidt Rasmussen/norden.org)

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