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- The problems of matching labor and the adequacy of labor but on the other hand especially the difficulty of employment after long-term unemployment are now the main challenges to be solved in Finnish labor policy says Undersecretary of State Elina Pylkknen from the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. Pylkknen spoke at the launch of the TEM analyzes and the autumn Professional Barometer on September 27 2021.- The Ministry of Employment and the Economy will analyze both labor market mechanisms and the effectiveness of active labor market policy measures in order to better implement policies that inter alia increase employment and improve labor market matching. In order to make the right decisions researched information is needed which should be made widely available to all parties developing employment conditions said Pylkknen.Check out the results of the TEM analyzes and the Occupational Barometer in this release.TEM analysis Employment from active labor market policy measures in 2019In terms of short-term employment the best employment policy services in 2019 have been employment with start-up money alternation leave and studying with unemployment benefits. Correspondingly rehabilitative work coaching experiments and studying with integration support have been weaker in terms of employment.The services listed above which improve the labor market position of individuals are of very different types in terms of objectives and volume. The different goals set for different services and the different services selected by jobseekers have a significant impact on post-service employment. In some services such as rehabilitative work rapid employment effects are not a key objective. Rehabilitative work is a set of measures belonging to the municipal social service.Since 2014 placements in the open labor market from active services have been growing slightly. With the general improvement in the labor market situation participation in the open labor market especially after employment in the private sector and vocational training has been on the rise for several years. The number of people covered by active labor market policy services has long been at the level of about 120000 people.The younger the 25-54 age group and the more their own educational background the more likely they are to be employed in active employment services. Women are better employed than men especially after being employed in the public sector. Men are somewhat better employed than women after coaching and study with integration supportThe results are based on the latest employment statistics obtained from Statistics Finland by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy on the labor market situation of those who participated in various labor policy services three and six months after the end of the service.TEM analysis New jobs were also created in the corona year 2020Recruitment problems were common in Finland during the pandemic year 2020. Some of them eventually became a labor shortage where part or all of the applied labor was not received. The main reasons for labor supply problems were still shortcomings in education and work experience of which work experience was a more important cause of problems in new jobs than education.The shortage of labor is clearly the largest in terms of health and social services and it is difficult to obtain a skilled workforce especially for fixed-term jobs. The situation also deteriorated the most in this area. The situation in the education sector also deteriorated compared to the previous year.The analysis is based on responses from more than 8300 sites representing more than 156000 sites. They applied for a total of 656000 employees in 2020 which is 94000 fewer employees than in 2019. There were clearly more applications for fixed-term employees than for permanent employees. More than 288000 new jobs were created which is 37000 fewer than in 2019. The reduction is relatively small given that economic and labor market conditions were uncertain in the year under review especially in certain industries.The largest number of people applied for new jobs was in trade professional scientific and technical activities and construction. New jobs were created ie recruitment to new jobs was relatively highest in construction information and communication professional scientific and technical activities administrative and support service activities and in agriculture forestry fishing and mining. The lowest number of them was in health care and social services. The creation of new jobs is most common in industries with typical fixed-term or seasonal employment relationships. New jobs are typically created in growth-oriented companies with a large number of employees. These locations often also have foreign labor.In 2020 the TE Office became the most important search channel when an employee was recruited for a new job. The second most important search channel was informal people-to-people contacts. The role of social media as a search channel continued to grow in 2020.The employee most recently recruited to the sites most commonly entered into a permanent full-time employment relationship. The share of these employment relationships increased slightly compared to 2019 but remained less than half of all employment relationships. More than one in five employees had been recruited for a fixed-term employment relationship of more than three months.In 2020 the locations were also asked about the effects of labor shortages on the growth of operations. Problems with the availability of skilled labor in almost one in four sites prevented the problem of site growth being the most significant in the construction sector.The sites planned to hire especially vendors building builders sales representatives application designers and programmers.
