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Finland

EMPLOYMENT BULLETIN

Finland had 301,200 unemployed job seekers at the end of May

The Nomad Today 6/22/21

The number of unfilled vacancies in May amounted to 154,800, which is 57,900 more than a year ago.

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LABOUR MARKET

357,400 unemployed jobseekers

The Nomad Today 1/31/21

This is 99,700 more than a year earlier.

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OFFICIAL FIGURES

Finland had 329,700 unemployed jobseekers at the end of August

The Nomad Today 9/22/20

The unemployment rate was 7.7%, or 1.6 percentage points higher than the previous year, according to the Labour Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland.

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OFFICIAL FIGURES

Unemployment rose sharply in June

The Nomad Today 7/21/20

The number of unemployed jobseekers increased by 162,700 year-on-year. The unemployment rate was 7.9%, or 1.8 percentage points higher than the previous year.

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Finland has 206,000 unemployed jobseekers more than a year ago

The Nomad Today 6/24/20

Unemployment rate rose to 10.6% in May, according to the Labour Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland.

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IMMIGRATION AND LABOUR MARKET

“My first job interview as a master’s graduate was for a warehouse”

Andruța Ilie 5/30/20

Lauren Stevens came to Finland to live with her spouse. Despite having graduated from Tampere University with a master's degree, her efforts to integrate and find a job according to…

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Government admits discrimination occurs in recruitment and at work

The Nomad Today 5/25/20

One of the methods assessed to prevent discrimination is anonymous applications.

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Number of unemployed jobseekers grew by 69,900 in one month

The Nomad Today 4/23/20

At the end of March, the number of people laid off was 74,000 in the whole country; a year-on-year increase of 53,200.

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Increasing number of unemployed jobseekers in Finland

The Nomad Today 3/24/20

The number of unfilled vacancies in February amounted to 164,400, which was 3,000 more than a year ago. The number of people fully laid off totaled 18,800, representing an increase of 2,800 from…

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More unemployed job seekers in 2019 after disastrous December for employment

The Nomad Today 1/24/20

In December, the number of unemployed increased by 29,100 from the previous month. Overall, Finland finished 2019 with 1,200 unemployed job seekers more than the previous year. 

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Countdown to repeal the penalty for the unemployed for not finding work

The Nomad Today 12/22/19

The activation model that allows Kela to cut the benefits of unemployed who do not find work will be abolished in January 2020. It was created by the Government of former Prime Minister Juha…

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Kela to remove in January the penalty for the unemployed for not finding work

The Nomad Today 11/22/19

Thousands of unemployed people affected by the so-called 'activation model' will see their unemployment benefits increase by 4.65% next year.

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Number of unemployed job seekers decreased in July

The Nomad Today 8/20/19

The number of unfilled vacancies at Employment and Economic Development Offices in July amounted to 100,000, which was 8,400 more than a year ago. The number of persons covered by services…

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23.7% of the foreign workforce is unemployed

The Nomad Today 8/7/19

70.4% of the men and women who make up the foreign workforce live in three Finnish regions. Swedish-speaking Åland archipelago is the area with the lowest percentage of unemployment among…

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Rinne wants to eliminate the activation model that punishes job seekers for not finding work

The Nomad Today 8/2/19

"I don’t believe that it has produced a single new job", the Finnish Primer Minister remarked in an interview with Yle.

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"I had only four interviews in six years after sending almost 2,000 job applications"

The Nomad Today 5/24/19

Carmen Tomás has lived in Finland for more than thirty years. During this time she has experienced the country's brightest stage while working in Nokia, but also the darkest as a job…

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New migratory trends: great increase of labor immigrants and decline of asylum seekers

The Nomad Today 5/8/19

The number of first residence permit applications on the grounds of employment grew by 25% in 2018, while the arrival of asylum seekers fell to the levels previous to 2015. A total of 646…

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Finland reduced by 30% unemployment among people with limited work ability

The Nomad Today 4/29/19

As many as 1.9 million Finns of working age have some type of disability or chronic disease. The authorities invested 11.5 million euros in a project to improve the labour market opportunities…

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Finland has 25,800 unemployed job seekers less than a year ago

The Nomad Today 4/24/19

The number of unfilled vacancies at Employment and Economic Development Offices in March amounted to 168,500, which was 27,100 more than a year ago. The number of long-term unemployed fell by…

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Finland is not for unskilled job seekers, says the OECD

The Nomad Today 4/18/19

In Finland 9 out of 10 open vacancies are for highly qualified labor. The Government works on a new strategy to attract international talent while many migrants denounce alleged discriminatory…