Unemployment among immigrants, 4th quarter 1996:

Unemployment among immigrants from South and Central America drops the most

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Registered unemployment among immigrants fell from 11.7 per cent in November 1995 to 10.9 per cent in November 1996. By comparison, registered unemployment in the general population dropped from 4.0 to 3.5 per cent in the same period. The largest decline in the unemployment rate was noted among male immigrants from South and Central America.

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In November 1996, a total of 10,606 unemployed immigrants were registered in Norway. This is a decline of 135 compared to November 1995. Disregarding immigrants from Eastern Europe, among whom the number of unemployed rose by 464, all immigrant groups saw a decline in the number of persons registered as unemployed. The statistics cover first-generation immigrants with foreign-born parents.

Fewer Latin American men out of work

A total of 11.9 per cent of the male immigrants in the labour force were registered as completely without work at the end of November 1996, against 13.0 per cent at the same time the year before. The biggest decline in the jobless rate was among men from South and Central America. In November 1996, 11.5 per cent of the male immigrants from this part of the world were registered as completely without work, against 15.2 per cent at the same time last year. For men in the general population, the unemployment rate fell from 4.2 to 3.6 per cent in the same period. Among immigrant women the unemployment rate was virtually unchanged in November 1996 compared to the same time the year before.

New Statistics

Unemployment among immigrants, 4th quarter 1996.
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. 8, 1997