Coronakrise get unemployment to shoot in the weather in Norway. We are better shielded, says Danish Business.
412.000 are registered as unemployed in Norway, said the Norwegian arbejdsforvaltning (NAV).
The high number is due to the many, who have been registered as unemployed during the coronakrisen.
– At the end of march was 301.000 persons registered as wholly unemployed, says velfærdsdirektør Sigrun Vågeng.
This is equivalent to 10.7 percent of the able-norwegians.
97.000 registered as partly unemployed.
– We have seen a drastic deterioration of the labour market in the last month, says Vågeng.
Overall, is there for the month of march has been an increase in the number of unemployed in 306.000 people. Only a little over 100,000 was reported unemployed at the start of the month.
Vågeng say that the initiatives taken by the government, who have closed parts of Norway down to stop the spread of corona virus, has affected each of the groups hard.
– We see anyway, that it spreads like rings and frames the whole labour market and thus the Norwegian economy hard, and she says to NRK.
– It is staggeringly high numbers, says the chief economist Tore Stramer from the Danish Occupation, which points out that there is a big difference in how Norway and Denmark have taken the crisis struck.
In Denmark, the unemployment rate for the comparison increased with 42.315 ago the 9. march.
– The massive increase in the unemployment rate should be viewed in the context of companies in Norway have the option to temporarily send their employees home without pay.
– It is called permittering. About 9 out of 10 report so that they have been hit by unemployment because of permittering, he says.
It stands in stark contrast to Denmark, where the schemes with the salary, “has screened thousands of danes from availability”, believe Stramer.
with No agreement on salary, would Denmark be able to see just as large increase in the unemployed as in Norway, he notes.
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