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Lolita Vingre, 34, has been fired from her job at the Oslo airport duty-free shop since March 18. This has led to spending many hours at home in Jessheim’s apartment.
– The heaviest period was at the beginning. Then I felt thrown out and run over. I couldn’t find anything to do, so I was pretty depressed, she says.
Six months after the government introduced the strictest peacetime measures, unemployment remains high. Thus, a total of 208,100 people are registered as job seekers in Nav, which constitutes 7.4 percent of the workforce.
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.
One in three has still not returned to work as before the crown crisis.
More than half worried
In this group, 55 percent say they are worried or very worried about their financial future.
This is a slight decrease from April, when 66 percent of the same group were concerned.
– At first I was very worried, because there were a lot of people who were suddenly unemployed and were looking for the support of Nav. Now I get support from Nav, but the feeling of instability is there all the time, says Vingre.
– When you get support from the state, it doesn’t feel the same as having worked and earned that money, continue.
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Dreamed of family life
Six months ago, Vingre and her partner had steady jobs and plans to buy a house and start a family.
Now the plan is on hold, indefinitely.
– I had a dream and a plan to have children and family. But that dream has been shattered. After the crown crisis hit us, stability disappeared, he says.
– Norway needs more children. But when we don’t have stability as parents, I can’t just have kids because I want to, and then line up at Nav afterward, says Vingre.
– At the same time, I think about how much we can really wait. That is a dilemma.
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.
Understand the concern
NHO Chief Economist Øystein Dørum understands that many are concerned about the economy.
– The numbers say what we also know, that if you lose your job, your income decreases. If the period of unemployment is short, you can consume whatever reserves you have. But they eventually run out, and then unemployment insurance provides good income security but doesn’t provide much to worry about, he says.
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In the TV 2 survey, 40 percent of those who have not returned to work as before the corona pandemic, respond that they have received bills in the last three months that they have not been able to pay on the due date.
29 percent respond that it is likely or very likely that they will not be able to pay their bills in the next three months.
– What does this pessimism mean for the Norwegian economy?
– Households represent an important part of the demand of the economy. Higher unemployment means lower family income and lower demand and activity. And in that sense, there are fewer jobs in other parts of the economy, too, says Dørum.
Hoping to improve
For Lolita Vingre, it is now a matter of looking ahead and finding new opportunities to secure a more stable financial future.
He has little faith that air traffic will increase enough that he can return to work in the Gardemoen duty-free zone. Therefore, he now participates in various courses under the auspices of Nav, in the hope that broader competition may provide more job opportunities.
– I hope to return to working life in six months. And then I hope we can look back on 2020 and think it was a difficult time, but we made it, he says.
