Adventures in the Latvian Labor Market

  • 2007-01-31
  • By Todd Graham
After two months of writing about issues such as wage inflation, and the lack of qualified workers in every field, I thought I could go out into the market and make more for myself and my family. I was wrong. What I did come away with was a first hand adventure into what it's like to be a Latvian looking for work.I thought I was a pretty good candidate. An American with a work permit, fluent English, fluent Latvian after 10 years of study and daily use, also pretty good Russian after three years of university study, a political science degree focusing on the Baltic states, and 10 years of e...
 
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