The impact of demographic change in Kokkola region
Mathiang, Abraham (2008)
2008
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024090924884
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024090924884
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The probem of demographic change has been a major concern in the country in recent years. As a result, this thesis was organized in coordination with KOSEK to addressed the impact of demographic change in the region of Kokkola. The purpose of this thesis was to make plans and strategies on how to bring skilled workers and students from Sudan.
The cohort of economically active people was projected to contract and that of elderly persons will increase. This transition was mainly because of the decline of fertility rate and decline of mortality due to improvements in the system of social welfare and standardization of medicare. The institutions that will faced labour shortages were predicted to be boat industry, metal industry and mechanical wood industry, service sector and desgning. The in-coming-foreign workers from Sudan, however, are imminently subjected to many challenges based on cross-cultural differences. Those differences were assumed to range from the complete whole which includes customs, norms, values and laws, to the shock of advanced technology.
The plan was that, fourty five university and high school students and twenty five graduate students from required fields are projected to arrived Kokkola in the first year. But findings of this paper revealed two different ideas fromgoup of inerviewers. First, students and skilful job seekers were highly motivated to come to Finland on migration basis and second, majority of government officials responded negatively against the will for which this thesis was set to achieve. In order to achieve objectives of this paper, the focus should be on individual applicants willing to come to Finland than considering government of the Sudan as main player.
The cohort of economically active people was projected to contract and that of elderly persons will increase. This transition was mainly because of the decline of fertility rate and decline of mortality due to improvements in the system of social welfare and standardization of medicare. The institutions that will faced labour shortages were predicted to be boat industry, metal industry and mechanical wood industry, service sector and desgning. The in-coming-foreign workers from Sudan, however, are imminently subjected to many challenges based on cross-cultural differences. Those differences were assumed to range from the complete whole which includes customs, norms, values and laws, to the shock of advanced technology.
The plan was that, fourty five university and high school students and twenty five graduate students from required fields are projected to arrived Kokkola in the first year. But findings of this paper revealed two different ideas fromgoup of inerviewers. First, students and skilful job seekers were highly motivated to come to Finland on migration basis and second, majority of government officials responded negatively against the will for which this thesis was set to achieve. In order to achieve objectives of this paper, the focus should be on individual applicants willing to come to Finland than considering government of the Sudan as main player.