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Discouraged worker effects and barriers against employment for immigrant and non-immigrant women
Discussion Papers no. 845
A phenomenon observed in many labor markets is that the supply of labor appears to depend on business cycles. In other words, workers who are searching for work become “discouraged” under unfavorable business cycle conditions because they believe ...
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Former participants in the Introduction programme 2009-2013
Reports 2016/24
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Children and young adults with an immigrant background
Reports 2016/23
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Immigrant women from the EU countries (except the Nordic countries) on the labour market
Reports 2016/22
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30 per cent of sentences served using electronic monitoring
Adult men with a Norwegian citizenship are most frequently imprisoned in Norway, but more than half of those in custody were non-Norwegian citizens. Although this is relatively similar to recent years, far more people are serving their prison sent...
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More family reunifications than new marriages
The main reason for non-Nordic citizens immigrating to Norway in the period 1990-2014 as a whole was family immigration. Following the south-eastward expansion of the EU, the number of labour immigrants has exceeded the number of family immigrants...
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Employment and education among young people with immigrant background 2014
Reports 2016/09
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Lower voter turnout than Sweden and Denmark
Voter turnout in local elections has been falling in Norway and most of Europe in recent decades. Four years ago, the number going to the polls in Norway increased, from 62 to 65 per cent. The share of the Norwegian electorate that exercises its r...
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What do we know about immigrants who do not work, study or receive benefits?
In 2011, 16 per cent of immigrants aged 20-66 years had a weak attachment to the labour market, i.e. they were neither in employment, looking for work, studying or receiving state benefits related to the loss of employment income. In the general p...
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Study of labour mobility showing employment and migration among immigrants
Reports 2016/06
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Immigrant workers from EU/EEC - a demographic overview
Reports 2016/03
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Refugees in Norway
The large influx of refugees is headline news throughout Europe, including Norway. However, despite all the attention, only a very small percentage of the refugees have found their way to Norway so far (UNHCR 2015). It is nevertheless evident that...
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Female chairmen in three out of ten municipalities
Twenty-eight per cent of the chairmen in Norwegian municipal councils are women. This is an increase of six percentage points from the 2011 election when 96 of the chairmen were women. The Labour Party and the Centre Party gained most chairmen. Am...
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Elderly recipients of social assistance and WAA unlikely to return to work
Young long-term recipients of social assistance have a closer attachment to the labour market than older recipients. They also receive WAA for longer.
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Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration 2015
Reports 2015/52
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