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New figures from NAV came Friday and the dramatic news is the large increase in available engineers.
In Telemark unemployment engineering / ICT increased by 35 percent compared with the same month last year.
Bamble has an unemployment increase of 23 percent. Skien has a stable unemployment rate of 4.5 percent of the workforce, Porsgrunn is 4.1 and Bamble 3.9 percent.
On a national basis, unemployment rose from the same month last year by 11 percent, and is now at 3.3 percent. The Telemark is 3338 people, or 3.8 percent, unemployed.
Jobseekers on various measures have increased 50 percent since last year, and now accounts for 625 people in Telemark. Measures called follow-up, training, wage subsidies, work experience and job creation and self-creation.
– The number of unemployed between 20 and 30 years in Telemark is now 980 people, or 6.3 percent of the labor force between 20 and 30 years. This is still high, but a decrease of 130 persons (12 percent) from February 2015, according NAV.
The number of long-term unemployed in Telemark, those who have been unemployed for at least six months, 685 people. This is 194 fewer than at the same date in 2015. A year ago it was 879 people long-term unemployed.
It was registered 974 vacancies in February this year, compared with 690 in February 2015. Most jobs were in health and care with 306 jobs, followed by construction with 131 positions.
at the end of January, 305 people in the county laid off. There is a doubling of the number of laid-off from a year ago.
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