Sweden Paying For Young People To Go To Norway To Find Work

Sweden has come up with a novel way of dealing with unemployment. It is paying people between the ages of 18 and 28 to go to Norway to find a job. This “Job Journey” is being offered young people in Soderhamn, who can receive a ticket to Oslo and a month’s rent at a youth’s hostel (for £20 a night).


Soderhamn has had a 25 percent unemployment rate and at least 100 people have taken up the offer to leave Soderhamn — a town of 12,000.

Below is the survival kit that we used for our enterprising citizens that the good people of Soderhamn may want to consider:


Source: Telegraph

23 thoughts on “Sweden Paying For Young People To Go To Norway To Find Work”

  1. Bron,

    I know you have stood shoulder to shoulder with your buddies, relieving yourselves of the 3.2 percent and said the equivalent of “Same in—same out!”

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