Fewer unemployed Icelanders are now looking for work overseas, according to a poll conducted by Capacent for the Confederation of Icelandic Labour.
More people are looking for work at home now than they were in the summer and a lower proportion now say they intend to go into education.
RUV reports that an earlier survey conducted last summer indicated that a quarter of unemployed people were seeking work abroad, whereas that figure has dropped to 19 percent now. Similarly, while 30 percent were then thinking of going back to school, only 24 percent are now.
In the summer, 65 percent of unemployed workers were looking for work at home in Iceland, which has now gone up to 80 percent – this is possible because respondents could give more than one answer to the same question.
Those in employment were also asked what they would do if they became unemployed. Around 60 percent said they would look for work in Iceland, 28 percent would look abroad, 22 percent would go back into education and 12 percent would take a professional course to strengthen their employment prospects.
The survey revealed that 50 percent more men than women are looking, or would look, for work in another country. University educated people are most likely to go abroad and people from outside the Reykjavik capital region are less likely to look overseas than their urban compatriots.
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In Norway Icelandic people are respected workers. They are in fact headhuntet by the Norwegians. Simple reason not all Icelandic people are bankers and did not loose their heads. They prefer Icelandic workers above others due to:
1) willingness to build up a live in Norway
2) High educated
3) Hard workers
4) Less cultural differences (Norwegians are hars on this point)
5) Speak often the languange or learn it quickly
@Alan
“I knoticed the other day a company in Norway looking for 60 carpenters, the company did not want poeple from Norway, Denmak, Swedes or anyone from Europe”
Can you document your claim?
@alan, yes im still in iceland,
1- the company whants icelanders becouse problaby they will pay them much less than carpenters from others country( maybe)
2- about pulling down icelanders, i dont need to do that(they already prove what they can do).
3-of course every person is diferent but the maine line is like that.
cheers
I think that after all, icelanders seem to be learning a lot out of this kreppa. Now at least I hope that they will never go back to the crazyness of slogans like “we are the richest people in the world” and stuff like that. Because at the end modesty goes a long long way. Now Icelanders have realized what this nation really is, and they need the help and collaboration from and with other nations to progress. I can tell you right now that the government is coming with aditional cuts. They are firing lots of nurses and doctors in periferical regions in the country. Trying to put health service at its minimum. In Reykjaness area, for example, it will be one doctor for each 5000 people. That means, for example, that if you are a tourist and you need emergency assistance at Keflavik airport you will have to be taken to Reykjavík and arrive there in around 1 hour. Depending of the matter, you can be sure you will pretty death by the time you enter the hospital.
People in many parts of the country are collecting signatures to try to make the government see that health care, doctors and nurses are very necessary in a widely spread population out of the Reykjavík area. Some locations have just 200 people, and doctors are many kilometers away. So, at this point, you could get better health asistance ( ratio per habitant) in any African country than here in Iceland.
Many doctors sit home without a job while people need to take long trips to just see a doctor. People is qeuing in crowded hospitals, and they have to wait 3 times more. The service for long sick people have been reduced to the point they have to go back home and family members without jobs, resources nor money have to take care of them. It is really bad.
In education they have cut so much that 25% of people applying to study at secondary schools will be rejected. Unemployed people have to pay for privat founded schools ( háskólabrú, etc…) if they want to get education. Háskólabrú costs 600.000 isk a year.
In this scenario where lots of young people is just hanging around with no other choice of improving their lives, alcoholism and criminality is scalating every month to the point that by now all icelandic prisons are FULL of people. Judges have to let people walk freely around on the streets because there is no place for them in jail. And someone named here above that Iceland is a peaceful place, like if we lived in the green fields of Heidi cartoons… Well, that is not true at all, specially when they have cut the police force.
Policemen in iceland said on the newspapers that they are working under minimum conditions of security, and that streets are unattended and without vigilance, because they don’t want to hire more policemen, nor pay the ones who are now for extra working hours. So go figure…
I see alot of crap calling Icelanders proud and arrogant, i could not agree more, what i would call Icelanders is hard working positive and alot of self confidence and very very well educated compared to most of europeans, I knoticed the other day a company in Norway looking for 60 carpenters, the company did not want poeple from Norway, Denmak, Swedes or anyone from Europe, the simple reason is that the company knows that when an icelander is working he is producing more than most and can be left alone to work and do a good job without supervision, , and what right do i have to comment on this, Simple i had Icelandic employess and Scotish and Irish, all worked very well and my clients were vey happy with the work carried out, i wonder too if the person who likes to pull down the Icelanders is still in Iceland, which strikes me as strange because if you dont like the poeple you live with then leave and i also from experiance like to point out that people from other places are the most arrogant poeple around, Have a great day ;)
@porto wine: like your statement!
ICELANDERS CANNOT FIND WORK ABROAD REASON IS THAT THEY DOES NO QUALIFY OR ICELANDERS CANNOT BE TRUSTED ALWAYS COFFEE TIME AND NO WORK MENTALITY ALSO FROM THE ICESAVE PROBLEM SO THEY MIGHT AS WELL STAY IN THEIF OWN COUNTRY
We are optimistic that the Icesave resolves sooner than later, the apartments loans and apartments which are hard to sell, retirement in two to three time, and lots of other things which hinders the transfer. Another thing even with higher taxis as long as we know how to handle our meagre income hopefully we will survive in Iceland because it is very peaceful. The government is trying very hard and hoping they will be more transparent in dealing with the economy and home front. This is a world wide problem and there is no place to hide but here the voice of the majority is still strong, very strong and in union there is strenght.
Maybe becouse they see that living and work in a foreing coutry is not so easy as they imagine, most of them get the same condicions that the utlanders get in this country.
its better to live whith less money but continuing to be proud and arrogant.
I wonder if that’s because the government postponed the really deep cuts from 2009 to 2010 (with the IMF’s approval), so most people think thing’s are better than they really are.