The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform

Abstract

TemaNord 2014:531The Nordic model -challenged but capable of reform Tarmo Valkonen and Vesa Vihriälä (eds.) Contributions by:

Youth unemployment and inactivity

“…Unemployment ratio = unemployed 15-24 year-olds in relation to the whole population of the age group. Source: OECD as reproduced from Albaek et al (2014).…”

“…The red line shows the 45 degree angle. Source: OECD, as reproduced from Albaek et al (2014). Notes: Unemployment ratio = unemployed in relation to the whole population of the age group.…”

“…When it comes to young disability beneficiaries, we refer to a recent analysis of ours (Albaek et al, 2014) published in the final report of the so-called NORWELL project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Nonetheless, we will use some space also in this context to highlight labour market outcomes of young adults having experienced health problems at an early age.…”

“…Doing so, we are able to obtain a fuller picture of the role of all the 16 stylized pathways presented and discussed in Chapter 5 in terms of non-completers' labour market situation as young adults. Moreover, the Albaek et al (2014) analysis did not cover Sweden, merely Denmark, Finland and Norway. As for the employment and unemployment pathways discussed above, we concentrate on early tracks starting with a varying number of years in post-compulsory schooling before ending with the young person dropping out, now to become a disability beneficiary.…”

Observed Risks of Client Safety by Social Care Professionals in Finland

“…In Finland, we know that the distribution of health and social welfare services and access to services are relatively good at the macro level (Pulkki et al, 2015;Vaarama et al, 2014;Valkonen et al, 2014). Even though most clients feel that the accessibility of social services is at a good level, some clients repeatedly reported that client payments were too expensive, services could not be accessed quickly enough, or there were other difficulties with the accessibility of services (Ilmarinen et al, 2016).…”