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Spanish seek Icelandic jobs every day

Every day someone from Spain applies for a job in Iceland. Some Spanish travel there and go from workplace to workplace looking for jobs. Meanwhile, Portuguese who worked in Iceland before the financial crisis are getting back in touch with old employers to apply for work.
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Doctors choose Sweden for work security and job satisfaction

Several Swedish embassies in southern European countries have seen a sharp increase in the number of people who are desperately seeking work. Meanwhile Swedish youths are wanted as guides by the tourism industry in Spain, Greece and Cyprus.
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Nordic region next stop for the Portuguese?

Will the Nordic countries see an influx of labour form crisis-hit Mediterranean EU countries? Portugal’s emigration rose by 85 percent in 2011 and 240,000 Portuguese - two percent of the entire population - have emigrated in the past two years. In Switzerland they already make up the largest group of people born abroad. But are the Nordic countries equally tempting?
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The crisis drives people north hunting for jobs

Is the Nordic region facing a wave of labour immigrants from crisis stricken Mediterranean EU countries? The Nordic Labour Journal has spoken to job centres, ambassadors, labour immigrants Iro and her brother Dimitris and looked at statistics. Migration policies represent a balancing act between different interests.
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The crisis drives people north hunting for jobs

Is the Nordic region facing a wave of labour immigrants from crisis stricken Mediterranean EU countries? The Nordic Labour Journal has spoken to job centres, ambassadors, labour immigrants like Iro and her brother Dimitris and looked at statistics. But is the Nordic region attractive compared to other countries for the type of labour employers want? Migration policies represent a balancing act between different interests. But the common European labour market is a saving grace for many.
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Riots highlight Manchester’s unemployed underclass

What made hundreds of youths run amok in Manchester and other UK cities in August? Debate has been fierce in the weeks following riots that cost five lives and millions of pounds in damages. The political right blames a moral collapse, the left blames budget cuts and social deprivation. In Manchester the riots have led to a renewed focus on the large and growing gap between the rich and poor.
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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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The IT revolution’s third wave

The development of smartphones is changing many people’s lives. Yet universal online access is only one part of the new IT revolution which will also have a big impact on working life. Smartphones and tablets became really powerful tools when Apple allowed anyone to develop the apps these devices run.
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Apps are changing working life

A third wave of change to how we relate to computers is washing over the world. It began when computing power moved into mobile telephones and tablets. Apps are small computer programs which link the devices to large computer systems. They will bring more change than we can imagine to the way we work and how fast we work.
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