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Weekly Bulletin issue no. 19, 1997

Unemployment among immigrants, 1st quarter 1997:

Decline in joblessness among immigrants

Registered unemployment among immigrants fell from 12.0 per cent in February 1996 to 10.6 per cent in February 1997. By comparison, unemployment in the general population declined from 4.5 to 3.7 per cent in the same period. Among non-Western immigrants, joblessness dropped the most among those living in Oslo.
In February 1997, 10,950 immigrants were registered as unemployed in Norway. This is a decline of 485 persons compared to February 1996. The statistics include first-generation immigrants.

Immigrants covered by ordinary job creation programmes dropped by 1,560 persons from February 1996 to February 1997. The decline applies to all immigrant groups and was highest for those from Eastern Europe and South and Central America.

The number of registered unemployed persons went down for all immigrant groups, except for those from Eastern Europe. This group is mostly made up of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia. The decline in the unemployment rate from February last year to February this year was more than 2.5 percentage points for immigrants from Asia, Africa and South and Central America.

New Statistics

Unemployment among immigrants, 1st quarter 1997.
Statistics are published four times a year in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. More information: Jørn Ivar Hamre, tel. +47 21 09 49 29, e-mail: ham@ssb.no or Jan Erik Sivertsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 82, e-mail: jsi@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 19, 1997