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Presentation of SwedenG4G

26th of March2009

       

     

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Municipality of LidköpingIn

Cooperation withRegion västra götaland

       

     

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Population statistiks

       

     

Inhabitants:

Sweden: 9 047 752

West Sweden: 1 528 455

The city of Lidköping: 37 380

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Swedish women's employment level is 71%

Women's employment between 55-64 years is 67%

       

     

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Presentation of SwedenG4G

26th of March2009

       

     

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Demography

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Swedish labour market

• High percentage of the workforce born in the 40´s

• High level of juvenile unemployment a problem

• Shortage of labour in some professions, for example in the care sector

• Relatively high level of unemployment in spite of the economic upswing

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Unemployment rates

Country/region/city Age 18 – 24 Total unemployment rate

Sweden 8 % 6 %

The region of West Sweden

7,3 % 5,7 %

The city of Lidköping 8,7 % 5,3 %

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The ageing phenomena

• High percentage of the workforce will retire in the next 10 years

• The employer has to have health care which helps maintaining the ageing workforce at the labour market

• The pension insurance system encourages active ageing

• Young people unemployed today are needed in workforce tomorrow

• Measures to enhance and/or maintain education and competence among young people

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National measures • Labour market education (sw: arbetsmarknadsutbildning)

• Employment support (sw: anställningsstöd)

• Salary support (sw: lönebidrag)

• ”Free year” (sw: friår)

• ”Youth guarantee” (sw: ungdomsgarantin)

• Municipal youth program (sw: kommunalt ungdomsprogram)

• ”Plus jobs” (sw: plusjobb)

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Regional measures

The employment offices on regional level handle:

• Labour market education

• ”Free year”

• ”Plus jobs”

• Employment support

• Salary support

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Local measures

AME (The labour market unit) on local level handles:

• Youth guarantee

• Municipal youth program

• ”Plus jobs”

• Special local projects at the AME (”Project Anna”)

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Labour market education

Target group:

Unemployed or at risk of losing their employment, from the age of 20.

Aims:

The employment office buys vocationally oriented educations for unemployed, to improve their chance of getting a job within a profession with a shortage of skilled labour. The education is individually conformed.

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Employment support

Target group:

Unemployed from the age of 20.

Aims:

The employer gets a contribution (50 % - 80 %) of the salary from the employment office. Hopefully the employer will hire this person after 6 months.

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Salary support

Target group:

Unemployed mentally or physical disabled persons from the age of 20.

Aims:

The employer gets a contribution (50 % - 95 %) of the salary from the employment office. No time limit for this measure, continuous negotiations of the procentage of salary contribution.

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”Free year”

Target groups:

Unemployed, especially longterm unemployed.

Employees who want to take time off work for education or recreation.

Aims:

An employee takes time off from work for 3-12 months, and an unemployed person works as a temp during that time. The employee gets 85 % of the unemployment benefit during the time off.

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”Youth guarantee”

Target group:

Young unemployed at the age of 20 - 24

Aims:

Program to develop the young unemployed´s skills, to improve the chance of getting employment or carry out higher education. Contains both practical and theoretical activities. If the employment office hasn´t been able to offer a person under the age of 25 work or education after 90 days of unemployment, the municipality has to offer the youth guarantee.

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Municipal youth program

Target group:Young unemployed under the age of 20.

Aims:Practical and theoretical activities for young people under the age of 20. The purpose of the activities is employment or studies. The activities often contain practice at private companies or in the public sector. MYP must be offered to the young unemployed within 100 days from the first day of unemployment.

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”Plus jobs”

Target group:

People who have been unemployed for at least 2 years

Aims:

The employment office subsidizes the wage cost up to 14 700 SEK/month for plus jobs. The plus job can´t last longer than 2 years and should not replace regular jobs.

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Local projects - ”Project Anna” at the AME

Target group:

Young unemployed people under the age of 25, who have very poor education or particularly difficult to establish themselves at the labour market.

Aims:

Support young people who need special measures to get a job or to re-establish themselves in the education system. These youngsters have special needs which the employment office can´t supply for.

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