1. Cooperation between the Swedish PES and the city of Malmö

2. Malmö’s challenges Engine for Skåne’s growth High levels of employment
High rates of unemployment
Many new businesses
Many residents without secondary school education
Rapid population growth

3. The city of Malmö – organisation 2016
City Counsil
City Executive Office
City Executive Committee
Department of Leisure
Department of Culture
Department of Enviroment
Department of streets and parks
Department for Social services
Real estate department
Stadsbyggnadskontoret
Department of internal servicies
Departmentof
Department of
Department of Labour Market, Upper Secondary and Adult Education
City district North
City district South
City district East
City district West
City district Inner city
Audit office
Committiees
Innehållsägare: Stadskontoret

4. The role of the municipality
Responsible for:
Education (preeschool –adult education
Social welfare (social welfare benefits, some unemployment actitivies and so on
Eniromental issues (some)
Elderly care,
Planning and building
And so on…

5. Arbetsförmedlingen - The Swedish Public Employment Service

6. Swedish Public Employment Service
The mission for the
Swedish Public Employment Service
The Swedish Parliament and Government outline our mission, deciding what services and functions we provide.
Our mission is:
To bring together employers and jobseekers.
To provide extra help and support to those who have difficulty finding a job.
To contribute to long term employment growth.
Our mission is basically to contribute to a well-functioning labour market.

7. Job growth and skills development
Arbetsförmedlingen is the largest employment agency in Sweden.
We match employers and jobseekers.
Easy access to our services: local employment offices, our national customer service center and our website.
We are developing new channels to interface with our clients: social media, web and video links.
Arbetsförmedlingen is the largest employment agency in Sweden.
We match those who need employees with those who are seeking work.
It should be easy to access our services: local employment offices, our customer service, arbetsformedlingen.se.
We are developing more ways of contact: social media, web or video connection.

8. Organisation and employees
280 local employment offices are clustered into eleven market areas
employees on average in 2014
67 percent are women
The average age is 45 years
Many professions are represented.
of our employees have direct contact with our clients
Some examples of the professions that can be found at Arbetsförmedlingen – apart from the employment officers – are employment office manager, psychologist, system developer, maintenance technician, human resources specialist, information officer, economist, statistician, researcher, lawyer, occupational therapist and physiotherapist.

9. Our mission, cont. We also:
Work with other stakeholders to ensure that jobseekers obtain work quickly and efficiently.
Take responsibility for disability issues within labour market policy.
Help recently arrived immigrants enter the labour market.
Ensure that unemployment insurance regulations are followed by jobseekers receiving these benefits.

10. Finances in 2015
Appropriations and other available resources: 77 billion SEK, of which
13 billion for wage subsidies and other measures for individuals with a functional disability
30 billion for unemployment benefit and activity support
7 billion for wages, premises and operating costs
Over 9 billion for purchase of labour market programmes and measures
4 billion for the introduction programme
Arbetsförmedlingen is funded by appropriations from parliament and the government.

11. Why is cooperation important?
For economic growth
To speed residents’ entry into the job market through education and other programs:
Youth
Integration
Long term unemployed
To increase levels of employment

12. How do we do it? Joint strategic forums and one strategic agreement
A number of operational agreements
Agreement for battling unemployment among young people between years,
Government grants for enabling cooperation
Agreement for recently arrived immigrants and their enter to the labour market
Joint projects, such as ESF
We invite each other to different forums and plan different initiatives together