Maria Hofman-Bergholm
In Finland, as in many other Western countries, the age cohorts have been shrinking for a considerable time and the trend is predicted to continue (Golovina, Nitsche, Berg, Miettinen, Rotkirch, Jokela 2024). As the age cohorts are shrinking the Finnish labour market report labour shortages in certain sectors (Finnish Government 2023), but at the same time Finland is now among the EU countries with the highest unemployment rate (Statistics Eurostat 2025). There seems to have developed a mismatch between the education field and the labor market. Workers don’t have the skills employers are looking for and jobs are not available in the sectors people are trained for (Finnish Government 2023).
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