The initiative, part of the spring supplementary budget, is aimed at municipalities with high unemployment or disadvantaged areas, and will ensure that young people there can get summer and temporary jobs.
Summer jobs are an important measure for young people to understand what it is like to be in a workplace, learn a job and get a sense of what a first salary means, says Minister of Labor Johan Britz (L).
The jobs are aimed at young people who have completed eighth or ninth grade of primary school, or the first or second year of upper secondary school. Young people who are neither enrolled in upper secondary school nor have a full upper secondary school diploma can also be included.
Swedish unemployment is high, 8.5 percent in February, according to Statistics Sweden, and the government has been criticized for doing too little.
