News
OECD: Big increase in number of foreign born doctors and nurses
Sep 29, 2015
Over the past ten years the number of nurses and doctors who have moved to one of the 38 OECD countries has risen by 60 percent. The number of foreign born doctors now makes up nearly one third of all doctors in Sweden and one in four doctors in Norway.
News
Time pressure bigger work environment issue in the Nordics than rest of Europe
Sep 29, 2015
Psychosocial risk factors are identified as the main challenge by the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work in their second major survey of work environments in European countries.
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June 2015
A space for Nordjobb?
Jun 22, 2015
“Ambitions are often bigger than the results when it comes to Nordic cooperation, but that does not change the fact that the dogma is alive and well. And so is the feeling that we still have something valuable which should be looked after, nurtured and developed. So there is something at the core of all this,” says Poul Nielson in Portrait. Perhaps a perspective worth a thought as the Nordic Labour Journal focuses on Nordjobb.
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June 2015
Nordjobb turns 30
Jun 22, 2015
If Nordjobb had been established as a result of labour market policies it would probably never have lasted for 30 years. But getting youths short term jobs in a Nordic neighbouring country is about so much more.
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June 2015
Many different experiences await Nordjobb participants
Jun 22, 2015
Young people travel across the Nordic region to work with tourists, weed spinach fields and public parks or pack prawns in Greenland — all thanks to Nordjobb. And the experiences are all unique.
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June 2015
Busy days when Nordjobb people flocked to Norway in the 80s
Jun 22, 2015
“Wow! Has it already been 30 years since Nordjobb started up!” Eva Jakobson Vaagland, the first Nordjobb project leader in Norway, is surprised when we call her.
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June 2015
Loa Brynjulfsdottir: The Nordic region is my home country
Jun 22, 2015
As soon as Loa Brynjulfsdottir was old enough, she applied for a job through Nordjobb. That was in 1990 and the start of many years working through Nordjobb and a strong feeling of Nordic belonging.
In focus
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June 2015
Nordjobb 30 years: creating the future Nordic enthusiasts
Jun 22, 2015
Nordjobb is one of the most concrete of the many Nordic cooperation projects. Giving 750 youths the chance to spend a few months working in a different country might not sound like much. But the experience changes many people's view of the Nordic region. For others the experience is life-changing.
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June 2015
When Gunvor Kronman became Gunnar in the warehouse
Jun 22, 2015
For some, Nordjobb means that life takes a new and interesting turn. For Gunvor Kronman the job in Danish Aalborg had a dramatic and crucial impact.
Analysis
New Danish government: A new and challenging course for Danish labour market politics
Jun 22, 2015
Denmark’s new centre-right government faces the hard task of reforming the country’s unemployment benefit model.
News
Complicated relationship between EU and Nordic labour law systems
Jun 22, 2015
The courts have acquired a greater role in the labour law system at the expense of politicians and the social partners. And knowing what the law actually means is becoming so difficult for employers and trade unions that the rule of law is under threat, argue the authors of a new book from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Portrait
Former EU Commissioner Poul Nielson: The Nordic region plays a role
Jun 22, 2015
“The Nordic region is not an island in the global society. If we want to protect what we care about and make sure we are not overrun by the values of others, we need to enter that fight,” Poul Nielson tells the Nordic Labour Journal.
Analysis
Labour market and gender: tough challenges for Finland’s new government
Jun 12, 2015
Negotiations to form a new government in Finland are over and the new government ministers in the three party coalition are ready to start the job of lifting the country out of the economic crisis. For the past ten years there has been plenty of political activity but the results have not materialised. Labour market reform is one of the most difficult issues.
In focus
PIAAC Nordic: many adults poor at problem solving using computers
May 21, 2015
Nordic countries get top scores in OECD’s survey of adult competencies. Now new comparative Nordic research reveals that far from everyone is on the winning team. A surprising 10 percent of the population have poor skills in literacy, numeracy and problem solving using a PC.
Editorial
Basic skills - use them or lose them
May 21, 2015
The results from the first ever Nordic PIAAC report are both exciting and frightening. It shows a surprising number of people have such poor basic skills that it affects their chances in working and public life, and it does not improve with age either.
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Nordics: Surprisingly many struggle with literacy and numeracy
May 21, 2015
The challenge facing politicians is helping two million adults who lack the necessary skills for working and social life to secure a chance to develop, says Anders Rosdahl. He is a senior research fellow at the Danish National Centre for Social Research, and the Danish representative in the network which has just presented the Nordic PIAAC report.
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New comparative Nordic research measures adult competencies
May 21, 2015
For the first time ever there is a Nordic version of the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, PIAAC. PIAAC was first published in 2013. The survey comprises comparative data from 24 countries.
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Workplace learning depends on what we learned in school
May 21, 2015
Our capacity to learn at work is to a large degree dependent on what we have learned in school, and working life cannot fully compensate for differences in formal schooling. That is according to a new Nordic survey which builds on the OECD’s large skills survey PIAAC. Many women in a gender segregated labour market are even loosing their numeracy skills.
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Numeracy, not literacy, most important in working life
May 21, 2015
Numeracy is more important for participating in working life than previously thought. An OECD assessment of adult competencies shows that being bad at maths increases the risk of unemployment and influences wage levels.
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PIAAC researchers in Finland and Estonia: Continuity is key
May 21, 2015
There are no shortcuts for creating a foundation for the skills needed in working life. It is a time consuming process. Finland’s good results in international surveys stem from a 1970s school reform. The results are now at risk due to cuts and readjustments. Estonia, meanwhile, is catching up with the Nordic countries.
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