Nordic Growth Sectors – How can working life policies contribute to improving the framework conditions?: Key findings and policy recommendations of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Globalisation Project

This report presents the key findings and policy recommendations of the project ‘Nordic Growth Sectors.’ Having identified growth companies in the Nordics, the project analyses growth drivers, the match between supply and demand of labour, the work environment in the companies, and growth and other companies’ perceptions of existing framework conditions and improvement needs.

Based on the analyses and on a Nordic Policy Forum held in Copenhagen with participation of policymakers from the central administrations, labour market organisations, universities and growth companies, a set of policy recommendations are developed, the most important of which are to

+ Introduce more flexible retirement schemes
+ Deminish international recruitment red tape
+ Prepare graduates better for employment
+ Create national work environment ‘barometers’
+ Introduce more flexible child care facilities
+ Carry out cost-benefit analysis of complex regulation