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Jobless Swedes paid to move to Norway
Published: 31 Oct 2012 08:48 CET
More than 100 young people from Söderhamn, located about 250 kilometres north of Stockholm, have already left the town to seek their fortunes in Sweden's neighbour to the west, Sveriges Radio (SR) reports.
And most of them have found work straight away, something which they weren't able able to do in the Swedish town of about 12,000 residents.
Söderhamn resident Andreas Larsson had been out of work for two years before taking advantage of the programme and now works as a truck driver in Oslo.
"I came here on a Thursday and had a job by Monday morning. It went that fast. It felt almost unreal, like I'd come to the promised land," he told SR.
The initiative, undertaken via a partnership between Söderhamn municipality and the local branch of Sweden's National Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), offers unemployed young people a month-long preparation course, paid transit to Oslo, as well as a month of free accommodation in the Norwegian capital.
Once in Norway, the jobless young Swedes also receive help from job coaches from Nordjobb, a service that arranges jobs for young people in the Nordic countries.
Mohamed Chabchoub, head of the local employment office in Söderhamn, defended the programme, explaining that it is in-line with the employment service's mission.
"We're not sending them away; we're helping them take a step forward and to have a richer experience," he told the broadcaster.
"They get some economic security and at the same time we hope they come back with renewed strength. It's not a kick, but a pat on the shoulder."
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lets not talk about the benefits of traveling from home, seeing life in another country and expanding your own mental horizons through experience. instead lets just sit on our backsides and do nothing.
or better still, lets just send immigrants. solves all the problems in one fell swoop, huh?
i spent time unemployed when i was a teenager and would have jumped at the chance to be supported in moving to another country to find work. i think the employment service deserve a pat on the back for thinking outside the box.
Each and every one of these unemployed could have found a job in Oslo on his own if only they had tried, yet they preferred to sit at home on their behinds and let the taxpayer foot the bill.
- just yesterday there was an article about Doctors leaving Mora for Norway
- my fomer komvux teacher is now working in Noeway as a builder as he earns more
2. With a country of 9.6 millions majority is of old people, either living in a old people care houses or still working at their 70's.
3. Young generation hasn't got any job expect taking loans from CSN to study so they can find a job after completion.
4. On completion, they would have borrowed something like 200,000kr and have no option left but to leave the country in search of an immediate job.
5. Reason: Job market is not ready to accept fresh graduates.
6. Old people never want to get retired.
8.Stress rises as time flies
9. Life becomes boring as living in an empty shell.
10. Solution: Let's go to Norway, Denmark, U.S, Australia if none of them then here I come to study again (H?olan).
I'm jobless in Sweden and my main problem is the Swedish language I believe.
any bytheway, I've heard people with Swedish work permit don't need any permit to work in Scandinavian countries. Any idea?