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Increase in employees on short-term stays
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2012-06-25T10:00:00.000Z
Labour market and earnings;Immigration and immigrants
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Employed short-term immigrants, 2011, 4th quarter

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Increase in employees on short-term stays

The number of short-term immigrants increased by 1 700 persons from the fourth quarter of 2010 to the fourth quarter of 2011. This increase is in addition to the immigration of approximately 30 000 employees in the same period.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, 71 000 wage earners were staying in Norway short-term. This is persons who are expected to stay in Norway for less than six months and as such are not registered as residents in the Central Population Register. Among other factors, this applies to people who commute to work in Norway for a shorter or longer period at a time. This means that even if a person is on a short-term stay in Norway, he or she can work in Norway for several years. For instance, this applies to people resident in Sweden who commute daily to work in Norway.

Most short-term employees from Nordic countries and EU countries in Eastern Europe

The number of short-term employees increased by 1 700 persons compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. This increase was due to an increase of 1 740 new short-term wage earners (8 per cent) from EU countries in Eastern Europe. In the other groups of countries, inflows have been stable, except for a small reduction of 300 persons (1 per cent) among short-term wage earners from Nordic countries. With about 28 400 persons in the fourth quarter of 2011, other Nordic countries were still the main suppliers of short-term wage earners to the Norwegian labour market. About 24 000 short-term employees originated in Eastern European EU countries. These two groups made up 74 per cent of short-term wage earners in the fourth quarter of 2011; similar to the fourth quarter of 2010.

The increase in the number of short-term wage earners is in addition to the immigration of about 30 000 new employees in the same period.

Distribution by industry

Short-term immigrants mostly work in construction (21 per cent), the provision of personnel (19 per cent) and in the manufacturing industry (11 per cent). About 51 per cent worked in these industries.

When compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, there was an increase in the number of short-term wage earners in a majority of industries. Domestic trade, transport and storage were the industries that experienced the greatest reduction in short-term employees.

Definitions

Persons who come to work in Norway can be divided into two groups: employed immigrants registered as resident in Norway in the Central Population Register, and short-term immigrants.

Immigrants are defined as persons born abroad with two foreign-born parents. They must also be registered as resident in the Central Population Register, which means that they expect to stay in Norway for at least six months.

Short-term immigrants are persons that expect to stay in Norway for less than six months and as such are not registered as residents in the population register. The statistics also include people who do not live in Norway, but work here.

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