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Decrease in employees on short-term stays
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2011-06-17T10:00:00.000Z
Labour market and earnings;Immigration and immigrants
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Employed short-term immigrants, 2010, 4th quarter

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Decrease in employees on short-term stays

The number of short-term immigrants decreased by 5 400 from the fourth quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2010. However, in the labour market this decrease was more than offset by the immigration of 26 300 employees in the same period.

In the fourth quarter of 2010, 69 000 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.

When there is a decrease in short-term immigrants and an increase in immigrants, this means that there has been a shift from short-term stay in Norway (for less than six months) to long-term stay (for more than six months). This is a development we have seen in recent years.

Strongest decrease from EU states in Eastern Europe

About 29 000 short-term immigrants came from the Nordic countries in the fourth quarter of 2010, while more than 22 000 came from the EU states in Eastern Europe. About 74 per cent of the short-term immigrants came from these countries.

Short-term immigrants from the EU states in Eastern Europe had the strongest decrease, with 3 000 persons (12 per cent), from the fourth quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2010. However, if we take into account that there was an increase in immigrants registered as resident from these countries from the fourth quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2010, the total growth was 10 000 and 3 600 persons respectively.

Distribution by industry

Short-term immigrants mostly work in construction (19 per cent) and the provision of personnel (19 per cent), but a large share also work in the manufacturing industry (11 per cent). About 50 per cent worked in these three industries.

Employees from the Nordic countries or the EU states in Eastern Europe mainly work in the provision of personnel (20 and 25 per cent respectively) and construction (21 and 24 per cent respectively). A lot of short-term immigrants from EU states in Eastern Europe also work in the manufacturing industry (18 per cent), while many short-term immigrants from the Nordic countries work in health and social services (11 per cent). The dominating industry for short-term immigrants from Western Europe was mining and quarrying (11 per cent).

More short-term immigrants during the whole year

The figures above are based on a reference week in November, but figures with the whole year as the reference period are also produced, for instance in order to include seasonal workers. The number of short-term immigrants then increased from 69 000 to 127 000. The corresponding figure for 2009 was 135 000. These and more figures can be found in StatBank .

Self-employed short-term immigrants

A total of 2 900 new self-employed short-term immigrants worked in Norway in 2010. These are also not registered as self-employed persons in 2009, but have been registered as self employed during 2010. Compared with 2009, there is no change in new self-employed short-term immigrants.

Most new self-employed short-term immigrants came from the EU states in Eastern Europe. New self-employed persons mainly work in construction.

Self-employed short-term immigrants have until now not been included in the statistics. It is not possible to give figures on how many self-employed short-term immigrants work in Norway. However, we can provide figures on new self-employed short-term immigrants in a specific year.

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 expected to stay in Norway for less than six months and 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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