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Number of full-time employed men increased by 27,000 from Q2 2013 to Q2 2014, while there were 9 000 fewer part-time employed men. Much of the decline in the number of part-time workers came among young people in education. This was true for both men and women. In Q2 2014 there were still many more men than women were employed full-time, respectively 86 and 61 percent, according to figures from Statistics Norway (SSB)
Fewer employed in retail trade
Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows that the number of persons employed in retail trade fell by 12,000 from Q2 2013 to the same quarter in 2014. During the same period, the number employed in technical services and property up to 10 000 and mining and quarrying, which is dominated by the oil and gas industry, the LFS shows an increase of 8,000 employees from Q2 2013 to Q2 this year. In other industries, there were only minor changes in the number of employees.
Small changes in labor force participation
In Q2 2014, the vocational activity or labor force as a percentage of the population 15 -74 years, 71.3 percent. This is a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the same quarter the year before. The decline came among those under 25 years, where fewer combined part-time work with education. Among people aged 30-66 was however an increase in labor force participation from 2nd quarter 2013 to the same quarter of 2014. Biggest increase was in the age group 55-66 years, especially among women. Labour force participation among women aged 55-66 years increased from 61.5 percent in Q2 last year to 63.5 percent in the same quarter in 2014. Among men in the same age group increased labor force participation by 0.9 percentage points over the same period, to 71 , 8 percent in Q2 2014.
Stable of precarious work
In Q2 2014 amounted to temporary employees 8 percent of employees in all, unchanged from same quarter the year before. In public administration, the proportion of temporary employees down from 8 percent in Q2 2013 to 5 percent in Q2 2014. Among the industries that are dominated by the private sector, the use of temporary staff most prevalent in accommodation and food service activities. Where worked 13 percent of the employees temporarily in the 2nd quarter. Among the industries dominated by the public sector such work is most prevalent in the health and social services and education. In each of these industries worked 12 percent of the employees temporarily in Q2 2014.
Stable share of long term unemployed
LFS shows that there were 91,000 unemployed in 2 quarter of 2014, and that 31 percent of them were long-term unemployed. In Q2 2013, the proportion of long-term unemployed 32 percent. Long-term unemployed are people who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks. The average time an unemployed person had been unemployed at the time of measurement, was 28 weeks in Q2 2014, one week longer than in the corresponding quarter last year.
Source: ssb.no
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