Fewer unemployed with Nav – the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.en

In January it registered 88 200 unemployed with Nav, 5000 fewer than one year ago. The unemployment rate is at 3.2 percent.

In January of this year, the proportion of available 3.4 per cent. The last month has the number of available fell by 1,200 persons, according to seasonally adjusted figures from the Nav. The sum of all the available and job seekers on measures fell by 1100 people. The background for the fall in January it is among other things, that the number of new ones that became available with Nav, was at its lowest level since December 2014.

- however, We see an increase in the number of people that have been available for more than one year, says the ministry of labour and velferdsdirektør Sigrun Vågeng.

In January had 23 900 of the totally available been job seekers for more than one year. This is 12 per cent more than in January 2016. This increase has been largely on the west coast and especially in California.

Only 59 per cent of the totally available received unemployment benefits, says Nav.

Unemployment is the highest in Rogaland, with 4.9 percent of the workforce, and in Aust-Agder with 3.9 per cent. The lowest unemployment rate we find in Sogn and Fjordane and Oppland respectively 1.8 per cent and 2 per cent.

the NTB.

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