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– For people who have been laid off or lost their jobs, it is a bad consolation that someone else gets a new job, says Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (H) on TV 2.
– And although we have halved the number of applicants for unemployment benefits, it is still true that we have a level of unemployment that in normal situations we would have called high crisis, he says.
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When the crown crisis began, 431,100 Norwegians registered as job seekers with NAV. Today, NAV claims that a total of 208,100 are unemployed.
– A crown crash
TV 2 has asked 1702 people who in April declared that they had lost their jobs, were laid off or had a sharp drop in income as a result of the crown crisis, about how they are doing today.
In the period from April 8 to 16, 2020, TV 2 Nyheten asked people who had been financially affected by the corona pandemic to respond to a survey. A total of 2,126 people stated that they had been laid off, laid off, or had lost more than 50 percent of their income.
On August 25, 2020, these individuals were asked to respond to a new survey. All responses are submitted through the online form. 1723 has black. This represents a response rate of 81. Responses were obtained in the period from August 25 to September 2, 2020.
All figures in this article are based on the responses of those who responded to both surveys. This applies to the tables in which we display the responses for April and September. Therefore, the April figures may have slight discrepancies compared to the figures given in previous articles on tv2.no.
The sample was recruited through a web form distributed through the website and social networks of TV 2. All those who responded were identified with a bank identification or other electronic identification. All data is processed anonymously. TV 2 collaborates with the University of Oslo on a secure solution for collecting and storing confidential data.
The TV 2 sample is made up of 60.7% women and 39.3% men. Therefore, there is a higher proportion of women in the TV 2 sample than in the NAV labor market statistics. Most of the people in the sample report having worked in industries, service professions and other jobs (27%), commercial and sales jobs (21%), and tourism and transportation (16%).
Compared to NAV’s labor market statistics, Oslo is under-represented in the sample. The TV 2 quiz is only distributed in Norwegian. Therefore, there is reason to believe that people with minority backgrounds are underrepresented.
One in three has not yet returned to work as before the crown crisis, according to the TV 2 poll.
Of those who do not return to work, two out of three also respond that they do not know or do not believe that they will return to work in another six months.
The figures don’t surprise Røe Isaksen.
– This is a health crisis, but it is also an economic crisis. The entire world economy has been hit by a corona, he says.
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NHO’s chief economist Øystein Dørum warned that “time is our enemy” because experience shows that the longer people go out of work, the more difficult it becomes for them to return to working life.
For Røe Isaksen, the solution is twofold.
– We work for the business community to recover, but also with solutions on how you can study, replenish skills and use the time when you are fired, to do something that will make you come back even stronger when you come out of the closet. the other side says.
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As Minister of Labor, do you have any advice or encouragement for those who have been at home for six months?
– I think one should be very careful when giving advice to people in that way, what worries me the most is that the government and I do our job, and that is doing what we can to keep infection rates low and ensure that our welfare systems are there, and not least that we create jobs and get people back, says Røe Isaksen.
– But if I should venture into one thing, it is that we have made new rules now, which makes it much easier to combine receiving unemployment benefits with, for example, education, or shorter courses to improve your skills. So if you have the ability to do it, then it can be a great way to get something positive out of a very dark and difficult time for people.
