Further increase in unemployment in Rogaland – Petro.no

NAV’s figures for August 2016 is not cheerful reading for workers in the oil and gas in Rogaland. At the end of August, according to new figures that all 11,748 people are without work in the county. This is 2457 more than the same time last year.

Better numbers nationwide

– The unemployment rate continued to go down in August. Some of the decline is due to increased action level, but we also see that there are fewer people who are unemployed now than was the case last fall. The main picture so far this year is the sum of the unemployed and job seekers on measures now appears to have stabilized, said Labor and Welfare Director Sigrun Vågeng.
Unemployment fell most in Aust-Agder and Finnmark in August, adjusted for normal seasonal variations. It was only Sor-Trondelag which had a slight increase in unemployment, while unemployment remained stable in four counties.
Construction professions and retail and sales were occupational groups where unemployment fell most in August, adjusted for seasonal variations. Within the engineering and ICT subjects continued unemployment to increase.

Fully unemployed and jobseekers on measures

At the end of August there were registered 84,700 unemployed with NAV. This is unchanged compared with last August. Unemployment is at 3.1 percent, the same as in August last year.
Sum of unemployed and job seekers on measures (gross unemployment) is now at 99,000 people, 5,200 more than a year ago. This corresponds to 3.6 percent of the workforce, compared with 3.4 percent in August last year.

Significant regional differences

The unemployment rate is now lower than in August last year for fourteen counties, while five counties have higher unemployment. Nord-Trøndelag and Sogn og Fjordane counties that experienced the greatest decline in unemployment, with respective decreases of 22 and 19 percent. Rogaland and Hordaland has experienced the largest increase in unemployment.

Unemployment is highest in Rogaland with 4.5 percent and in Aust-Agder by 3.9 percent. Sogn og Fjordane and Oppland have the lowest unemployment rate with 1.6 percent and 1.9 percent.
In recent months, the number of new unemployed fell. Meanwhile now increasing number of vacant that have gone unemployed for more than six months. The greatest increase in the group that has been job seekers between 52 and 77 weeks, with an increase of 18 percent. It is primarily in Rogaland and Hordaland there is a large increase in the number who have been job for more than a year in several other counties, we see a decline.

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