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Nordic students in Europe fall victim to physical land borders tema
| Corona

Nordic students in Europe fall victim to physical land borders

An entire generation Nordic students have grown up in a borderless Europe. Thousands are studying in other European countries. Most went back home in March as old borders started being reinstated because of the coronavirus.
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The threat of quotas

Norway and Iceland have already introduced them and now boardroom gender quotas are rolling out across Europe.
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Theme: Closed borders

Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 4/2020
Scandinavian data centres: fewer jobs and less profit than forecast tema

Scandinavian data centres: fewer jobs and less profit than forecast

New data centres are popping up in Norway and Sweden along with a lot of hope for many new jobs and high returns.
An interest in engines took him to Sweden - but it didn’t pay enough tema

An interest in engines took him to Sweden - but it didn’t pay enough

Per Billington moved from Norway in 1984 to work at Volvo’s research department in Gothenburg for one and a half years. It shaped his entire career. This is where he learned ‘ordning och reda’ — Swedish ‘proper order’ — and he learned to love diesel engines.
Theme: The lack of assistant nurses Infocus

Theme: The lack of assistant nurses

Across the Nordics there is a lack of hospital staff. NLJ focuses on assistant nurses. How do you increase the occupation's status? By giving it legal protection, as is proposed in Sweden? By transferring tasks from nurses, as is being done in Norway, or by establishing more full-time jobs like in Denmark?
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Sick leave being scrutinised again

When unemployment falls sick leave levels rise, says Finnish researcher Jenni Blomgren. As a result, authorities are looking for ways to get more people into work. But how to do this is no easy task. 17 years of an inclusive workplace agrement in Norway shows as much. And not only adults fall ill. In Sweden, February is the top month for both vabba and vobba.
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| Dec 2018

Statistics Sweden: new statistics on how different immigrant groups manage in the Nordics

Statistics Sweden (SCB) and its Nordic opposites have begun producing comparable statistics on how immigrants manage in the labour market, divided into country of origin.
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Theme: A sustainable integration

Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 9/2020
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The Nordic Ministers of Labour

The issue of the supply of skilled labour is high on the agenda in the Nordic countries, as well as that of getting everybody on track for the new knowledge-based society. We have put four questions to the Ministers responsible for labour market policy in the Nordic countries, in order to hear their views on these challenges.
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