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    • Iraqis in Norway – a demographic portrait

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      … – refugee groups that are comparative to Iraqis (Sølhusvik and Skille 2009). Among Iraqis, the rate of immigration amounted to 15 per cent of the rate of…. Relocation from the municipality of residence is referred to as secondary migration. This is of great interest to both local and national decision-makers, and is central to…

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    • Do refugees get involved in local politics?

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      …. Political participation can entail voting in elections, standing as a candidate at elections, taking part in various campaigns and demonstrations, joining political or other interest groups and so on…, interest groups and political parties have long tried to improve voter turnout (Tronstad and Rogstad 2012). In general, persons with a refugee background are…

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    • Refugees in Norway

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      …. The situation has also been followed with great interest in Norway. But to date only a very small percentage, from a few countries, have made their way to Norway… the past 15 years (see figure 3). Until 2005, the growth rate for refugees was the same as for immigrants in total, but since 2006, the increase in…

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    • Environmental taxes in Norway 1991-2004

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      … towards responsible use of natural resources (Eurostat, 2003). In the real world, however, such taxes are weighted against other political priorities such as the competitiveness of industries, employment and regional interests…. The difference is explained both by the fact that a number of industries are exempt from paying the tax or have a lower CO 2 tax rate, while the oil and natural gas industry pays a relatively higher tax rate…

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    • Fewer businesses falling victim?

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      … Norway’s Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CRE). The participation rate in both surveys was extremely high…. Of these, 75 responded; a response rate of 15 per cent. First of all, this is a completely different gross sample than for our survey, and a sample…

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    • Young people who are not in employment or education

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      …. Interest in obtaining more information about this group is growing, both nationally and internationally…. The response rate is about 80 per cent. Employed persons are individuals with paid work, including those who are temporarily absent from such work…

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    • As different as two drops of water?

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      …’ wives and a lot of seasonal employment was not included. The reason the proportion was so high was due to the increasing rate of industrialisation and urbanisation…”. Even though the proportion of women in paid employment was somewhat higher in Norway than in Sweden around the turn of the century, the rate of industrialisation and urbanisation grew faster in…

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    • One in five regular GPs are immigrants

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      …. The rate of change from 2002 to 2008 shows that the proportion of open patient lists has declined in both groups, but the decline is not as strong among GPs who are immigrants as for other GPs…. International consideration - national requirement At the international level there is a great deal of interest in elucidating the mobility of health personnel across borders…

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    • Large diversity in little Norway

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      …. Based on the interest that society shows in immigrants and integration, it seems that issues related to diversity have become everyday topics of conversation in Norway…. According to figures from Eurostat - the statistical office of the European Union - only Luxembourg had a higher population growth rate than Norway in 2012…

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    • Immigrants – what we know and don’t know

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      …-born to immigrant parents are less likely than average to be working in Norway; a country with a higher employment rate than most countries (Statistics… out of the country again. For those with a relatively recent interest in immigration and integration, it may seem obvious and natural that we have so…

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    • Are young immigrants a marginalised group?

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      …. French conditions in Norway? There has for some years been great interest in the non-western immigrant…? Variables such as gender, country of origin and a smaller range of age distribution will also be of interest in this context, as well as period of residence in Norway for the group of young first-generation immigrants…

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    • A dark chapter in the history of statistics?

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      … Lillehammer in 1998 with these words, and because of international interest on the subject of Jewish persecution during World…. ix The circumstances in Norway were different from those in Denmark and Finland, but there are times when contextual relativity is of no interest…

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