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Rail suicides: a joint Nordic approach to reduce numbers nyhet

Rail suicides: a joint Nordic approach to reduce numbers

Jan 28, 2020 Every year, 3,500 people in the Nordic region take their own lives. The Nordic Council Welfare Committee wants to stop this happening and has presented a vision to prevent all suicide. One of the group’s proposals is a vision zero for rail suicides by 2025.
Red cabinet member - impatient in the long run interview

Red cabinet member - impatient in the long run

Jun 30, 2010 Audun Lysbakken swears that it is he - and not the media - who will set the agenda for his ministry's work. That means working on long-term, preventative measures to avoid people becoming social outsiders - results of which will not show up on statistics for another 10 to 15 years.
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| June 2017

Refugee immigration not primarily about money

Jun 22, 2017 What do refugees cost? It is a concern for both proponents and opponents of welcoming refugees to a country. Yet research shows the challenge is more social than economic, where the major risk of alienation lies in the gap between those who have a job and those who do not.
Refugees - burden or resource? Infocus
| Nov 2015

Refugees - burden or resource?

Nov 27, 2015 Refugees’ chances of getting to the Nordic countries have been dramatically reduced. Before the tightening of rules, more than 170,000 people applied for asylum in a Nordic country. Even if nany of the new arrivals will be turned down, the region will still get a solid boost of labour. Can refugees be included in working life without lowering wages and risking the creation of a new economic underclass?
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Refugees as labour market resource – can Norway learn from Sweden?

Dec 15, 2016 There is an important Nordic debate on how to integrate refugees faster and better into the labour market. At the Nordic ministers’ meeting in Helsinki, the exchange of experiences and new policies inspired discussions and new ways of thinking.
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Refugees leaving their mark

Oct 23, 2015 “I don’t believe anyone in any government office fails to think about refugees,” says the new Director for the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) Sigrun Vågeng in the Portrait. The numbers arriving to the Nordics have broken all predictions and colour societies and their public debate.
Reindeer herders want Norwegian wind farm demolished tema

Reindeer herders want Norwegian wind farm demolished

Mar 25, 2022 Europe’s largest onshore wind power plant, built near Trondheim in Norway by Fosen Vind, could face dismantling after a supreme court win by indigenous reindeer herders.
Renewed drive to fight work-related crime in the Nordics nyhet

Renewed drive to fight work-related crime in the Nordics

Mar 25, 2022 All of the Nordics have intensified the fight against work-related crime. Norway’s new government has launched what it calls a spring clean of the Nordic labour market. Sweden’s deputy Minister for Employment Johan Danielsson has been tasked with coordinating the policy, and recently visited Oslo where he met his Norwegian colleague Marte Mjøs Persen.
Research inspires policy development Infocus

Research inspires policy development

Jun 22, 2018 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.
Researcher: ”Lowering the minimum wage creates a new underclass” tema
| Nov 2015

Researcher: ”Lowering the minimum wage creates a new underclass”

Nov 27, 2015 There is agreement on one thing when it comes to refugees — the many newly arrived must be integrated into their new societies. They need accommodation, language skills and jobs. The Nordic cooperation could do with sharing experiences for how to achieve that.
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