Employment

This report presents projections of the supply and demand for labor at the national level by education for the period going forward to 2050. The main purpose is to identify potential imbalances between the supply and demand for labor with different types of education that may arise in the future, so that measures can be implemented to counteract any imbalances.

Throughout 2023, there was a significant decline in the number of employees in temporary employment agency activities. The decline has not been as steep in 2024.

This documentation highlights the new version of LÆRERMOD - assumptions, equations, and implementation in Python.

This report describes the disparities in the shares of persons aged 16-39 who are in employment or education (i.e. the share of the population that is active).

This document provides the background of the revision that was made in 2021 in the weighting methodology for the Norwegian Labour Force Survey (NLFS), and practical and technical details behind the calculation of monthly and quarterly individual weights and yearly household weights.

This report analyzes the transition to self-employment among immigrants and others with an immigrant background compared to the natives, and to what extent they maintain their businesses.

We project a surplus in 2040 of kindergarten teachers, compulsory school teachers, and teachers in upper secondary education (i.e., subject teachers, vocational teachers, and those with practical pedagogical education), except for those with practical pedagogical education in vocational subjects.

55.8 per cent of the refugees 15-66 years old were employed in the 4th quarter of 2021. In the whole Norwegian population of the same age 73.7 per cent were employed. There was an increase in the employment rate of 4.1 percentage points among the refugees and an increase of 1.8 percentage point in the total population from 2020 to 2021.

This report uses information on employees from register-based employment (2003–2014) and a-ordningen (coordinated reporting by employers about income and employees to NAV, Statistics Norway, and the Norwegian Tax Administration, 2015–2022), as well as advertised positions from NAV and Statistics Norway (2015–2022) to examine relationships between education and occupation.

Norway, like many other countries, faces significant population aging, which will increase demand for health and health related care (HC) services. The government has a statutory responsibility to provide HC, and finances about 85 percent of the total HC-expenditures in Norway.

Statistics Norway has prepared updated and improved projections for demand and supply of different educational groups directed towards health and care. Demand for important groups of personnel working in hospitals and local government health and care services is highly dependent on ageing of the Norwegian population.

Nurses and primary school teachers are sought-after labour, and it is expected that the need for these professions will increase further in the upcoming years. In order to meet this demand, we are dependent on those who have completed these educations to work in the professions for which they are trained.

In 2021, many changes were implemented in the Norwegian Labour Force Survey (NLFS). The sampling plan was changed to better reflect the main output goals for the survey. It included moving to an individual sampling unit, allowing new stratification variables and allocations.

The purpose of this report is to investigate the differences between people staying outside employment, education and training for several years, compared to people being outside these activities for a shorter period.

The labour force surveys (LFSs) on all Eurostat countries underwent a substantial redesign in January 2021. To ensure coherent labour market time series for the main indicators in the Norwegian LFS, we model the impact of the redesign.

Labour immigrants add important expertise to Norwegian society and help to cover labour shortages. Norway has historically had labour immigration from far back in time. We take a closer look at labour immigrants from countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as well as their family members in this report.

51.7 per cent of the refugees 15-66 years old were employed in the 4th quarter of 2020. In the whole Norwegian population of the same age 71.9 per cent were employed. There was a decrease in the employment rate of 1.1 percentage points among the refugees and a decrease of 1.0 percentage point in the total population from 2019 to 2020. Thus the disparity in the employment rate between these two populations was almost unchanged.

In 2021 The Norwegian Labour force survey (LFS) went through a substantial redesign in accordance with the new regulation for integrated European social statistics (IESS). To ensure coherent labour market time series for the main indicators, the redesign's impact is modelled to make back-calculated estimates adjusted for possible breaks due to the 2021 LFS-redesign.

This report describes the disparities in the shares of persons aged 16-39 who are in employment or education (i.e. the share of the population that is active).

The spread of Covid-19 and measures to control infection introduced by the Norwegian authorities from 12 March 2020, had a major impact on the labour market for both employers and employees. This report seeks to describe the consequences of the infection control measures from the time they came into force and up until May 2021. The measures, whether national or local, are not described beyond the starting point in March.

We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias.

The number of employed persons increased by 38 000 and the number of unemployed decreased with the same amount from June to September, adjusted for seasonal variations. In September the employment rate was 68,8 per cent and the unemployment rate 3,6 per cent.

This report analyses occupational participation and non-employment in the labour market among immigrants, attempting to gain a better understanding of what contributes to lower versus higher occupational participation.

There were 115 000 unemployed persons in Norway in August. The last time the number was lower was in March 2020.

This paper provides empirical results for internal migration and commuting flows using panel data for 89 economic regions in Norway for the years 2001-2014.

Vi modellerer flyttestrømmer og pendling mellom 89 økonomiske regioner i Norge (NUTS 4) for individer i alderen 15-74 år og utnytter ‘makro’ paneldata for årene 2001-2014.

According to seasonal adjusted numbers from the Labour Force Survey, the unemployment rate was 4.2 per cent in July. This corresponds to a decrease of 0.6 percentage points from April.

Adjusted for seasonal variations, the number of employed persons increased by 43 000 from March to June. There were only minor changes in the unemployment in this period. The 138 000 unemployed persons in June corresponded to 4.8 per cent of the labour force.

Information about individual choices of heterogeneous agents. Results can for example be used to describe the distributional effects of tax policy change, such as the effects on changes in money metric utility – distributions of equivalent and compensating variation (EV or CV).

The number of employed persons increased by 42 000 from February to May. The number of employed persons were then at about the same level as before the corona crisis. From February to May 2021, however, there were only minor changes in unemployment.

The number of employed persons increased from January to April. There were only minor changes in the unemployment in this period. The 141 000 unemployed persons in April corresponded to 4.9 per cent of the labour force.