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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,

    Fits in well with your standing theme song. Is it called? “Down with government, up yours”

    Should we suggest it to the R party?

    Yesh, the prices of beer here puts most tourist in shock. Then they don’t notice that the food tastes
    terrible and costs much more than at home. Stategic thinking. Meanwhile (serioously) the only girls left in town during the summer are the fat swedes from the country—tourists themselves. Ugly besides.

  3. id707:

    8 dollars for a pint [16 oz.?]? that is highway robbery. I guess Sweden has a low rate of alcoholism.

    We had a history of it before prohibition. That stupid law killed our beer industry. Look how long it took to recover. Almost 70 years.

    One stupid law and we had to drink filtered rat pi$$ for 70 years. Just in case you are wondering, the pilsners the major brewing companies made.

    Think about it, one law destroyed an entire industry for 70 years, holy smokes.

  4. Matt Johnson,

    You must be using aother year than I am. I’m 76 now.
    As for Noregian beer prices, don’t know. Could vary a lot from Swedish, due to alcohol politics, probably higher. Here it is 8 dollars for a pint of strong 5.5 percent tap beer at happy hour. All else higher.

    micro beer industry not al all developed as in USA.

  5. pete9999,

    When you put it that way, I understand why I stay in Stockholm.

    PS Can’t they provide subtext to those kids, I can’t understand whay they say. I can’t understand what kids say here either—-they all talk too fast.
    I think it is old age effects. But they will slow down a bit if asked.

  8. marines in tutus beating up disabled vets, cops taser a 10y/o for not cleaning his car, gay hater politicians screwing little boys,

    i’m going to norway

  11. GeneH ande Bron,

    I’ll let you fight it out, BUT I posted last week a couple of links which gave background on how they both became socialist.

    It was claimed that when things got tough in ’31 in Norway, the government took over the four largest banks and let the others fall if they would.

    Bloomberg should learn to distinguish between Nordic and Norway. Their comment applies ONLY to Norway.

    Iceland refused to pay the stupid English who got burnt, Finland goes its own way, as does Sweden and Danmark. Sweden is praised for its financial stability by intl organs just now. We have our own currency.

    We have been losing skilled workers for 10 years to Norway. Just as Finland did to us when we had some surplus, but ours stopped soon.

    Why don’t I live there? Don’t like constant rain and whale/seal meat.

  12. Bron,

    It’s quite simple if you can distinguish between good and bad regulation and de-regulation. The unemployment problem all traces back to the economic crash which was caused by the CDS scam which was allowed by de-regulation. Point in fact though, regulation of banking to fix the unemployment problem won’t fix it: that damage is already done. It would, however, prevent a small handful of companies from potentially destroying the global economy because they wanted to play casino again.

  13. Gene H:

    I think it is a little more complex than just the banking industry.

    I would really like to understand how unregulated the banking industry is considering there are thousands of pages of banking regulations.

    Taking away some regulations which were made the early 1930’s, in response to a crises, isnt exactly deregulation.

    Regulation in response to a crises isnt necessarily in the best interest of the country due to the political nature of most government responses to disaster. One only need think about 9-11 and the Patriot Act.

  15. AY – we wait with bated breath.

    Meanwhile, I grew up in a very Scandinavia area & the thought of Swedes sending their children off to Norway would have put many of them in the hospital! How times have changed.

  16. Thanks for pointing out that the European unemployment problem has the same roots as ours in the woefully unregulated banking industry, Bron.

  19. http://www.unric.org/en/youth-unemployment/27413-mass-immigration-to-norway

    “Youth unemployment in Southern Europe is exceptionally high, reaching 40 percent in certain countries. Today, 5.5 million Europeans aged between16-24 are unemployed. Among Europe’s 27 states, the youth unemployment rate is at 22 percent, more than twice as high as the general unemployment rate. A whole generation might go to waste.

    Norway, however, is a promised land for those willing to work. With a youth unemployment rate of 7 percent, and a general unemployment rate of 2.8 percent, the Minister of Labour wants to attract qualified workers to Norway. In January 2012 more than 25,000 jobs were vacant, a rise of 12 percent since January 2011.”

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