Unemployment rate is record high in Finland and it's soon to surprass Spain. Finland will become the first Western nation to have such high unemployment rate. Meanwhile in America it's way easier to get a job that pay much better. What makes it so hard to get a job in Europe?

by batukaming

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  1. Because Europe is a vassal state of the US. The value our economies generate is drained by the US economy and that’s why their job market and Wall Street is doing alright while Europe gets poorer and poorer each year.

  2. Too many regulations, high taxes, language barriers among EU countries, war in Ukraine, and the USA influence, etc.

  3. Employment rate in Finland is 77%, and 80% in Norway, 82% in Sweden. Finland is still above the average in employment in Europe. 

  4. Because our economy is in the toilet and nonone knows how to fix it

  9. In general I feel like taking risks is not rewarded enough, taxes are too high, and people who have enough money are not eager to spend it (at least domestically). Also in the US finding job is as easy as getting fired, so in some sense their economy has higher flexibility to adjust for demand but worse employee rights.

    Also I feel like the local economy does not have developed services. For example, I want to hire a home cleaner. I am ready to pay 30 euros per hour, which after VAT is around 24 euros. If you look at offered prices, it is at least 40 euros or even more, probably because of taxes. This means that one needs to work almost the whole day to be able to buy 2 hours of such service from the salary. This makes people avoid spending money, which I think is an obstacle to high employment and general economic growth.

  11. Automation has eliminated entry-level jobs, and Finnish government has implemented pro-cyclic economic policy amidst a recession.

  12. Because of multiple different things. Covid + the war in Ukraine hiked up the construction costs in Finland (everywhere in EU but also here), and also our eastern border basically lived from the tourism from Russia, which ended when we closed the border. Too many businesses going under, and studying for adults has been made very expensive so you can’t really afford to study a new profession unless you work at the same time, but since the unemployment rate is what it is that’s not going to work for many people.

    Also it seems like the governmential institutes are actively trying to make as many people unemployed as possible. I’m exxaggerating a little, but for an example they have lowered the amount of nurses required for each patient to have which obviously makes the “wellbeing service counties” across the country to lay off people so they don’t have as many expenses.

    Government that thinks only the people who don’t want to work are unemployed doesn’t really help anything, when they don’t want to understand that majority are unemployed because they literally can’t get a job. A movie theatre in Helsinki (capital) was recruiting a single cashier and they got almost two thousand applications for it. When the ‘leaders’ just blame the people for not working or “wanting to work”, in a situation where it’s really difficult to get selected into a job, as there are hundreds if not thousands of people trying to get each of them, there are no miracles happening any time soon.

  13. Yadayada and I came to Finland 3 months ago. Let’s hope I find a job soon 😀

    But luckily I have a solid interview rate already and I will start teaching German online soon to earn some money on the side.

  14. In this thread: economic conservatives making wild assertions, most of which are not supported by data

  15. Because we don’t have purchasing power because we don’t have jobs because we don’t have purchasing power because we don’t have jobs because we

  16. The situation is very alarming and we have an incompetent government who thinks cutting benefits will magically creates new jobs.

  17. A bunch of people amazed even the IMF economists and went with austerity, something the right wing governments have refused to relent on. The people talking about their immense economic prowess and sensibility keep flying against the basic theories to benefit their rich constituents while fucking up the country for the rest.

  18. Our workers rights are so good greedy piece of shit corpos don’t invest because they’d have to pay people a living wage

  19. Because this government only focus on immigrants to creat law against them day by day!

    Now they destroyed the whole country and blamed immigrants for that😂

  20. Finding a new job is not the whole story. One factor is also generous unemployment benefits. Going unemployed from a good salary job will net you decent benefits for a while. Even in other Nordics like Denmark, it’s more strict and you are more f’d to be unemployed.

  21. Superhigh taxes raise risk compared to gains too high

  22. People are not spending enough. Half because they are jobless, the other half because they don’t want to support this government (and are afraid they will become jobless).

  23. First google this reddit group and facebook expat pages also.(these ppl ARE TOXIC)

    Its really hard to get a job id you dont speak finnish and not hard working.

    These platforms people are just full of immigrant students and wolt drivers whose dreams didn’t come true from finland and be happy. plus of course the Finnish Kela employed. Most Finns actually live the happiest life in the world for real

  24. One simple (and cheap) way would be to move to CET time zone. It would greatly benefit remote working to EU countries

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