Norway leads Scandinavia in foreigner employment

New figures have revealed that foreigners generally fare better in Norway than in other Scandinavian countries. The news comes via a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED), which said that 67 percent of all foreign-born residents in Norway are currently employed.

In Denmark, 66 percent of foreigners are employed, whilst the figure in Sweden stands at 62 percent. However, experts note that the majority of those foreign individuals in work are from so-called ‘non-ethnic’ backgrounds.

Denmark has the highest immigration rate in the region and also the highest amount of immigrant poverty, with about 26 percent living below the government’s poverty level.

But the report’s authors make it clear that Norway is not immune to such issues. OCED officials said in the report that, “The foreign-born population is less likely to be employed than their native-born counterparts,” in all three countries.

The report went on, “This discrepancy is partly driven by differences in age and educational distributions. The gap between the two groups tends to get wider for both men and women after accounting for these differences,” the Foreigner.no reports.

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