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Research inspires policy development Infocus

Research inspires policy development

The Nordic Work Life Conference 2018 presented and debated research on a range of topical and challenging social tendencies. The Nordic Labour Journal this month focusses on Norway's expansion of its paternal leave quota, Finland's universal basic income and the new platform economy.
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Editorial staff

Line Scheistrøen is editor-in chief of the Nordic Labour journal and its network of freelance journalists and photographers in all the Nordic countries as well as in Åland and the Faroe islands. In addition, Kerstin Ahlberg participates as an employment law expert and Lars Bevanger as a translator.
Language training boosts self-confidence for Norway's Coke staff tema

Language training boosts self-confidence for Norway's Coke staff

Coca-Cola Enterprises Norway started a successful language training programme in the workplace after a visit to another food and drinks company - the dairy group Tine.
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Theme: The comon Nordic labour market at 70

Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 6/2024
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Early, active measures to fight youth unemployment

All the Nordic countries are hard at work to limit the rising youth unemployment. The measures differ but there is broad agreement on the need for early, comprehensive and active measures to help youth finish their education.
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Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 2/2014

Theme: Gender equality of historic proportions
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A story of cooperation across the borders

Knowledge about the labour market and personal relations is essential whenever employment services are called for. This is even more essential when you are charged with the provision of employment in another country. The following are some of the conclusions drawn by Oili Nätynki, based on many years of experience as an employment intermediary in the Nordic countries and as a Eures consultant.
Welfare state and social partners’ cooperation tema

Welfare state and social partners’ cooperation

Cooperation with the social partners is central when politicians in Norway and Denmark sit down to write new political programmes - be it Denmark’s new government programme or the programme for Norway’s 2012 presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Fraud in the welfare state

The word fraud has been used a lot in the welfare debate in the Nordics this autumn. In Norway, the “NAV scandal” has been dominating the news. In Denmark, an employee at the National Board of Social Services is in court charged with embezzling more than 100 million Danish kroner, while unemployment statistics for Sweden have been compromised.
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Theme: The hunt for manpower is on

Will there be enough manpower when economies grow year on year while populations are ageing? No, say many employers in the Nordic countries. Their warning is that lack of manpower will jeopardise economic growth and innovation. Goverments too are on the alert. Welfare sattes are dependent on enough workers to keep ticking over.
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