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20% unemployed (defacto) and they say we "urgently" need more people.
According to CEO of Nokia those (unemployed) are of inferior quality
(inspite of high education) and we need to give tax-breaks those
educated foreigners that are willing to move to Finland.

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Timo,

We have reached the same situation here. There have been massive layoffs
in the technology sector and I have friends with 10-25 years of
experience who cannot find jobs. The government, however, allowed an
additional 20,000 H1B work visas this year (over the previous
50,000/year allowed before) to replace "inferior workers." Inferior
means, by the way, expensive to pay (another example of doublespeak).

When the world salary structure begins to equalize and you no longer can
pay someone from India 30% of what you pay someone in the US, the US
worker will suddenly have become more knowledgeable.

Rick