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Report State of the Nordic Region

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Diversity in the labour market – focus on newly arrived women

Nordic countries are world leaders when it comes to female employment rates. Yet unemployment remains high among newly arrived women. In this month’s theme we take a closer look at who the women are, the cause of the problems and what authorities and voluntary organisations can do to get more women into work.
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Aria Ahmadi

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Finnish critics: Unemployed punished for inactivity – regardless of their situation

Finland’s activation model for unemployed people was meant to do just that – activate the unemployed. Yet results remain elusive. All unemployed people are critical to the model, say those the NLJ has spoken to.
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Ylva Johansson

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Trude Vollheim

Nordic region strengthens cooperation against work-related crime – wants EU onboard innsikt

Nordic region strengthens cooperation against work-related crime – wants EU onboard

It is called the grey economy, social dumping, work-related crime – yet despite the many names the problems are common and concern all of the Nordic region and Europe. This is about criminal networks, pure exploitation of labour, businesses operating on the edge of the law and unequal competition. All this led to a joint resolution at the ministers’ meeting in Stockholm on 13 April.
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| April 2018

OECD: More flexibility needed to get female refugees into work

There is a need for more flexible measures to integrate newly arrived refugee women in the Nordic region, according to the OECD. Research shows that after years of fleeing, birth rates increase dramatically. When women feel safe, they have children – but that also makes it difficult for them to benefit from labour market introduction programmes.
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Nafisa Yeasmin

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